WORKFLOW INTEGRATION -- Getting Connected

Prepress and printing operations have to navigate a web of sometimes-sensitive issues when they touch on their customers' internal processes. Concerns about control, internal politics and resistance to change can present barriers to a better way of doing things.

Tanagraphics Inc. in New York City strives to deepen its relationship with clients by being a solutions provider, but it makes sure to do so at the client's pace, says Mark Cordova, COO. A key focus of that effort currently is the TANA Interactive Publishing System, or TI:PS, which is an Internet-based content management system that can enable services such as browser-based dynamic print document generation and Web publishing, Cordova adds.