Inventors:
Steven Jecha - Minneapolis MN, US
Winfield A. Mitchell - Minneapolis MN, US
Assignee:
Vista Print Technologies Limited
International Classification:
G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30
G06F 17/00
US Classification:
707 9, 707100, 715517, 715530
Abstract:
Computerized prepress is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computerized prepress system includes three components: a server, a client and a printer. The server has stored thereon an authoring program to create a document, and a translation program to translate the document to a suitable prepress format. The client downloads the authoring program from the server to create the document, and then uploads the document to the server for translation to the suitable prepress format. The printer receives the document as translated to the suitable prepress format from the server.