Correspondence: Janice Reese, Network PDF, 3212 West End, Suite 500, Nashville, TN 37203, USA. Tel: 615 876 8738; Fax: 615 279 3410; Email Janice@networkpdf.com

¹A recognized Printing and Prepress Industry leader for over 20 years, Janice has proven executive management, marketing, sales and technology experience in the tough world of ecommerce, prepress, print and new media. She is currently Executive Director of Network PDF and VP of Business Development with Objective Advantage; bringing together solutions to integrate the Graphic Arts Enterprise supply chain and drive automation and innovation in the industry. She provides strategic and tactical marketing for business development and implementation using accredited industry standards as the platform.

²has over 28 years experience in digital networking, application integration and large-scale network deployment in a number of vertical markets including government, education, medical, technology, insurance, publishing and manufacturing. In the publishing industry, he is partnered with Network PDF Inc. of Nashville, TN, and its principal Janice Reese, as a workflow and networking consultant to the publishing world. He has been a featured lecturer and symposium leader in 2005 for the Graphic Arts Technology Forum (PIA-GATF).

Abstract

Information Technology is transforming our economy and society. Customers want and need three basic things as systems and technology change. This infrastructure begins to allow an entire digital workflow process to create a true manufacturing process with real time information. This process can connect with customer service for planning and into prepress. Automating print production functions with job definition format-enabled systems allows additional productivity through the reduction of labor-intensive processes.