e-add when we can use tools like soft proofing and digital asset management to deliver a job to a customer a day earlier than before."
The prepress workflow Shorewood Packaging has built is slick, by any account, but it's still not perfect, according to Blakistone, who suggests that the next technological implementation will likely be a database management solution that will help facilitate approvals, manage file revisions and better track job-ticketing information.
The company is also consi
dering automating preflight by implementing FlightCheck Professional's Web-enabled cousin, FlightCheck Online. "We're really going to start to migrate toward a total electronic job submission and production workflow," Blakistone proudly states.
—Edited by Melissa Larson
