FOLIO Production Survey for Publishers says…

FTP, although as reported here, is almost as old as me, is still the preferred and main method of file transfer to the printer:

file transfer survey

This was all in a very interesting and detailed production survey for publishers by FOLIO over at FolioMag.com, where we read:

FOLIO:’s 2009 Manufacturing and Production Trends Survey reports what tools—like ad portals, virtual proofing and XML workflows—continue to come into their own and save publishers valuable dollars, as well as those areas that manufacturing and production execs are avoiding. Facing so many challenges this year, it appears that decision makers are remaining status quo and investing only in upgrades that will save big in the long run.
Source: http://www.foliomag.com/2009/folio-s-2009-manufacturing-and-production-trends-survey

Let’s just check out a couple of the color graphics they had, but, much more when you click through and read the entire article…

prepress sources

So prepress is continuing its in-house migration by publishers. No surprise there, as it helps streamline the preflight process (note: Markzware’s FlightCheck Professional v6.5 is shipping with Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, PDF CS4 support and Quark 8 checking – preflight and package with FlightCheck!) – And we see that XML and the conversion to a more readily readable file format is also on the move:

xml workflow

Site Search Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

No Comments

Trackbacks/Pingbacks

  1. Magazine Publisher: FlightCheck is a wonderful software that will not only do this check but many other magazine-critical checks - [...] are a magazine publishers services company, offering the full range of magazine publishing, magazine printing, mailing, [...]

Share your thoughts