Packaging Workflow Takes Wing

Within PDF there is portable job ticket (PJT) for recording a subset of information about the job. When you create a process plan, relevant data from the plan is automatically entered into the corresponding fields of the PJT. So when I assign a color management value to a 485 Red, or when I enter a trapping value of ten thousandths of an inch, those values are stored within the file. And the entire history of the job is recorded into the Oracle database, so that when it's time to edit and rerun a job, the prepress manager has access to all the functions that were ever performed. This data can be used to pull custom reports to help with billing cycles.