Level 2: Structured

Structured profile

Your company has started to establish defined processes and is in the early stages of adopting automation or digital tools to connect with your customers, indicating a growing commitment to streamlining operations. You have maybe started to build your first workflows.  

There is an awareness about the standardization of repetitive prepress work.   

How does it look like in the workplace?

Some of your employees are excited about trying automation, while others may be hesitant about adopting new technologies. After experiencing automation, you’ve likely seen its potential to reduce human intervention—and with it, errors.

The challenge is that your employees are still opening jobs and applying one-off solutions that solve a single problem at a time. These solutions aren’t designed to be reused or scaled. Even if you want to standardize the process, the right tools may be missing.

When unexpected errors or orders arise, employees end up working extra hours. The workflow for getting files in and out of prepress remains chaotic.

How to evolve

Recommended steps

• Progress from those one-off solutions you apply to certain jobs to a point solution, a product designed to address all these specific prepress problems to get the files ready for production.  
• Look out for the solutions that will allow you to build your first workflows.  
• Standardize your work and metadata using an MIS / ERP system  
• Turn your website into a Webshop to further standardize your work upstream.  
• Are you still handling customer approval via email? Explore online proofing solutions.  
• Do you still do manual imposition or nesting? Explore solutions that automate these processes.