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Managing digital workflow
 

Smaller businesses — even many home offices — are now benefiting from digital technologies that once only large corporations could consider and afford.  Although your business may only use one or a few aspects of digital workflow, you owe it to yourself to consider the potential benefits.  You can be certain that an ever-increasing number of your competitors are already adopting some aspects of these new technologies.

Working past challenges to save time and money

Even experienced printing professionals are challenged by some aspects of today's digital workflows.  Clients who work past the initial challenges, however, usually report that they save both time and money.

RE:Print works with clients to assess and implement digital workflow processes, phase by phase — from the potential benefits of RAW digital photography, through publication design and printing, to distribution and document management.  RE:Print can help you with:

• Capture:  digital photography; text and image scanning; file conversions

• Design:  graphic design, layout and formatting

• Printing:  offset and digital printing; copying; web publishing and demand printing

• Distribution:  web publishing, PDF files, electronic distribution, list maintenance and shipping services

• Document management:  version control, demand printing and other aspects of digital asset management

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Should you be converting to a digital workflow?

Although more and more users are adopting some aspects of digital workflows, most businesses are still only beginning to realize the potential benefits.

Kodak recently completed a digital workflow survey of professional photo labs — an industry on the cutting edge of digital technology — and found that two out of three professional photo labs in the U.S. will add or expand digital imaging capabilities within the next year. 

Here are some more of their findings:

Barriers to digital workflows:  Cost was the most common reason cited (40 percent of respondents) for not adding digital imaging workflows. That was followed by a general reluctance to convert to an entirely digital workflow (33 percent), concern the equipment would be difficult to use (10 percent), and doubts about the viability of the "digital revolution" (3 percent).

Benefits of digital: The most-mentioned benefits of digital workflow were saving time and money (23 percent), more efficient and productive processes (20 percent), the ability to handle more jobs (13 percent), and overall simplified workflow (13 percent).
 

Click here for Kodak's summary of their survey.