Any three of these without the fourth would have delayed desktop publishing. Gain an advantage over your competitors by spotting these enabling technologies and understanding where they fit into the overall digital picture. The obvious costs of going digital are the hardware, software and staff involved. Other, less obvious costs are the cost of training and the ramping up of the new process while running in parallel with your old process. The list is almost endless and seemingly fraught with danger at every turn.
Digital photography is in use with certain types of work.
With digital communications, we get rid of the lost time in courier services and make the entire process more immediate. New file formats are emerging at a very fast rate to allow the transfer of data across previously incompatible systems. All of these areas represent opportunities for us all, but we have to keep in mind the enabling technologies issue. There are no easy answers to this puzzle. The only realistic answer is to partner with your service suppliers.