New Realities In Magazine Manufacturing.

The article explores emerging trends in magazine manufacturing in the U.S. The widespread adoption of Portable Document Format workflows is a step in the right direction, bringing standardization to what used to be a much more complicated process of file integration. Job Definition Format is another proposed standard for automation but few publishers wanted to adopt it. Virtual proofing also known as soft proofing, the technology is based on the use of calibrated color-accurate monitors and eliminates the need to send hard proofs back and forth.