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Thursday, 19. June 2008

Web2Print - and now what?

During a drupa review today, a discussion started about the effects of digital printing and web to print. IT as a paradigm for process or workflow innovation was the main focus of hall 7 with the DIP drupa innovation parc.
Interestingly, a lot of people in the discussion focused on the technologies involved, as trends in web interfaces like flex vs. html, trends in rendering engninse like Indesign Server vs. PDFlib and so on.

I think however, that digital printing, books on demand, high speed inkjet technologies, web2print and all sorts of database publishing really put content back into the center.
The possibility to personalize print products, up to books, catalogs, flyers, means that you need at lot more content.
Whatever rule engine is involved, somewhere the information to decide upon have to be there.
Creation processes become more important. Strategies to centralize information into databases, provide rule engines with enough and relevant data are the key lever to add value and relevance both to customers and consumers.
The traditional prepress specialist becomes more and more a consultant to database management, encoding, rule based transformations.

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