2001 年 38 巻 6 号 p. 380-385
The digitalization of prepress process is progressing, since color DTP started in late '80s in Japan. The digitalization has brought big change in graphic art industry by using database system and network. The appearance of DDCP and CTP has combined several prepress processes. And CIP4/JDF has a big possibility of changing the all printing workflow. I describe the future and now of digital workflow from a view point of total workflow, file format and application in this report.