E-paper Production Workflow - AdaptingProduction Workflow Processes forDigital Newsprint

摘要

This study focuses on production flow for publishing ingeneric digital newsprint editions, such as e-paper, PDAs or on-lineeditions, by analyzing and mapping existing production workflow atthree Swedish newspaper publishing companies covering the mostcommon organizational types in the newspaper publishing industrytoday.Most newspaper publishing companies produce a range of electroniceditions, all part of the digital newsprint family. In general, thereexists two types of organizational production workflows – theintegrated multiple channel workflow, and the separated, where theprinted and the electronic workflows are detached, sometimes intotally separate organizations.Using scenarios, the aim is to propose a model for the productionworkflow of the electronic paper editions in newspaper publishing.The results indicate several possibilities for automation in theworkflow. Furthermore, the study points out stages as challenges inthe workflow where changes have to be done in order to introduce epaperas a publishing channel for news publishing. We will as anintroduction, along with the workflow scenarios in this paper, alsopresent a brief overview of the existing techniques for displayingcontent on electronic paper terminals.