Printing materials production supporting apparatus, printing materials production supporting system, printing materials production supporting programm, and printing materials production supporting method

摘要

It is an object of the present invention to provide a server site for supporting the course of producing one printing material typically with the cooperation of a plurality of parties of, for example, a publishing company, a printing company, a plate making company, a designer and the like. There are provided a designation reception section receiving a designation of a job representing one work consisting of a series of steps for producing one printing material, designation of a workflow representing procedures for executing the job and input of information on a client executing one job together with a predetermined customer, from a terminal of the predetermined customer among a plurality of terminals connected through a communication line; a security management section 147 managing information on the customer and the information on the client; a job management server 140 managing a progress status of the job received by the definition reception section for each job; a work space server 150 managing a substantial file storing data available as the printing material or data available as a part of the printing material relating to the job received by the definition reception section for each job; and an asset content server 160 managing the substantial file for each customer.