Chapter 2: ISDN Helps People Work Together

Graphic Arts

The graphic arts are typical of many industries where people need to come together, exchange images and information, solve problems and reach agreement.

The fact is that virtually every book, magazine, newspaper or advertisement prepared today, as well as every graphic image that appears on television, first began its existence in a computer, or was quickly made part of a larger computer file.

Copy is written and images drawn or scanned on desktop computers. Pages are designed and formatted, photos corrected and separated, and negatives or even final printing plates produced on these or similar desktop systems. Meanwhile, scores of others review, edit, revise and approve the work at almost every step of its development.

And throughout this intense and high-paced community of interest, ISDN is changing the way information gets from one place to another. It has begun to replace the colorful but costly army of bicycle messengers, couriers and account executives in taxis that has traditionally serviced this industry.