We have two service-centered enterprises Zideo, which provides video encoding services, in Richardson and an imaging operation in Austin, Texas, and Washington, D.C., formerly JJT, which handles archiving for facilities such as the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library. The heart of all we do is compression, including lossless data compression sciences. Lossless data compression processes files without attrition of data pixels. Managed lossy data compression processes files with negligible data attrition striving for maximum data compression with minimum quality reduction. What should commercial printers keep in mind when the term compression science is mentioned.
Smaller files move faster, reducing time.
If compression is sufficient, it often reduces hardware requirements, usually bandwidth for transmission and disk space for storage, cutting costs as well as speeding up the production process. While we all delight in discussing digital workflows, most publishers, creative agencies, prepress operations, and printers are saddled with the expense of maintaining dual workflows because moving and storing digital data often is inefficient and expensive. That solution must have the flexibility to fit wherever the user requires compression in his or her particular workflow. Software that requires the user to work in a certain manner often interferes with already-established work habits and procedures and is counterproductive. Also, time is money, so speed is good.