Production Defining Digital (1,102 words)

by Ira A. Gold

As the world moves toward a more digital environment, so does the workflow in catalog production. Since the advent of the high-end color electronic prepress systems in the early 1980s, we began our trek into an end-to-end digital production workflow.

Digital workflow, for the purposes of this article, is a production process using the fewest possible analog steps and resulting in a final file in a PDF (Portable Document File) format, which allows graphics and text to be seen regardless of what programs were used to create them.