Automated prepress workflows are key to improvements in quality and time to market in package printing.

By Jean-Marie Hershey

Control geeks

Pre-production systems for packaging refine the highly automated prepress workflows of commercial printing and adapt them for package production by emphasizing speed and supply chain collaboration. They also add tools to meet a variety of packaging-specific technical challenges, such as the handling of spot colors, step-and-repeat or trapping specifications, and other labor-intensive, front-end, and RIP-based tasks.