Since 2000, I've been working daily with OneVision products, both the prepress and workflow automation solutions along with the Solvero file editor. The clear trend is that more and more routine work is being automated. In the beginning, even with the automatic solution, in our case the Prepress Suite "Asura" - it was still common for the delivered customer files to be copied by a person into a...
For print production both the production file and the order data (color, number of copies, format, possibly finishing, ...) are required. All order data is stored in one system. "System" is an elastic term and ranges from simple MS Excel forms to complex MIS solutions or web shops to SAP-controlled organizations.