12 Profitable Book-Production Tips for Publishers and Printers
Regarding the use of electronic order and job specifications, Dave Booth, Malloy’s IT manager, reports, “We anticipate using the JDF job ticket and Job Messaging Format (JMF) in the future. As we move toward linking job tickets, preflight and other downstream departments, these are likely to be part of our solution. This will make it straightforward for publishers to initiate transactions with us for orders, quotes, packing/shipping specs, etc. Our prepress department is also looking at prep systems that incorporate aspects of JDF.
Eugene G. Schwartz is editor at large for ForeWord Reviews, an industry observer and an occasional columnist for Book Business magazine. In an earlier career, he was in the printing business and held production management positions at Random House, Prentice-Hall/Goodyear and CRM Books/Psychology Today. A former PMA (IBPA) board member, he has headed his own publishing consultancy, Consortium House. He is also Co-Founder of Worthy Shorts Inc., a development stage online private press and publication service for professionals as well as an online back office publication service for publishers and associations. He is on the Publishing Business Conference and Expo Advisory Board.