SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING COMPOUND DOCUMENTS IN A PRODUCTION PRINTING WORKFLOW

摘要

A system and method for managing production printing workflow (100) isdisclosed. The system includes workflowmanagement software which manages and facilitates the procedural stages of theworkflow including job origination (102), jobpreparation (106), job submission (104) and job fulfillment (110). Theworkflow management software provides an integrated objectoriented interface which visually reflects and interacts with the workflow.The software further provides functionality to create,manage and manipulate compound documents as ordered collections of documents.