Packaging Workflow Takes Wing

He can save the file with permissions before it's transmitted to the converter, so that it can be viewed but not altered. The converter brings up a plate layout template on his system, drags-and-drops a thumbnail of the one-up file into the template, and exposes a plate. This model gives us the ability to have a JIT digital plate system on location at the printer—who has the flexibility of changing layouts according to his scheduling demands—while still having that "locked down" file that maintains present lines of accountability.