Managing and Representing Image Workflow in Prepress Applications

The growing availability and accessibility of digital images, imaging software and electronic printers is leading to new and innovative prepress and printing applications. Examples are demand color printing and custom publishing. Rather than develop independent solutions on an application-by-application basis, technologies which simplify and integrate solutions for a broad spectrum of applications are needed. This paper will present a standard representation for describing color raster images in terms of data objects such as scanned images, text, graphics, and image processing operations. It will also show how this representation can be used in several prepress and print applications spanning the gamut of the create-edit-assemble-store-print work process.