SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF PAGES IN A PRODUCTION PRINTING WORKFLOW

摘要

A system and method for managing production printing workflow (100) is disclosed. The system includes workflow management software which manages an d facilitates the procedural stages of the workflow including job origination (102), job preparation (106), job submission (104) and job fulfillment (110) . The workflow management software provides an integrated object oriented interface which visually reflects and interacts with the workflow. The software further provides functionality for efficient page level modificatio ns to documents at the job preparation stage. This functionality allows such modifications to be easily made to selected pages and visually verified by displaying visual representations of the modifications on visual representations of the pages.