Production workflow validation is essential for effectively managing clients’ expectations. Graeme Richardson-Locke offers a guide to choosing the best solution for a wide-format device.
Vital to both consistency and sustainability is better control of the process. To achieve this, automating repetitive tasks is critical, to reduce manual interventions and the potential for errors, and manage colour throughout the process. There are two aspects to automation – hardware and software – and while manufacturers and PSPs have done a good job of automating the former, it’s a different story with software automation. The solutions exist, but take-up among PSPs is patchy, so the job is only half done.