Wiring Up

TECHNOLOGY AT A GLANCE

The Basic Flow

The following is an example of an electronic workflow drawn from Mark/Trece, a Fallson, MD, digital prepress house and flexographic computer-to-plate operation. All steps are performed by the prepress staff

Step One: Receive the digital images that comprise the job from the client, design firm or advertising agency either on disk, removable storage media such as SyQuest, or via a telecommunications line such as ISDN or T-1, or the Internet.