Chapter 2. The Big Picture

The Big Picture
 

“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you are doing.”

 
 --W. Edwards Deming, American management innovator

IN THIS CHAPTER, we discuss the three key aspects of a successful RGB-to-CMYK workflow: collaboration, context, and process control. This workflow necessarily involves the contributions of many partners: photographers, illustrators, designers, production managers, digital prepress service providers, and printers. In an environment where the roles and responsibilities of each of these partners are constantly evolving, the challenge for us is to cooperate and understand the interdependency ...

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