The common issues are reviewed that arise when an operation seeks to gain efficiencies and combine offset and electrophotographic order processing, prepress, and finishing operations. Primary reasons for changing workflows are covered, along with practical considerations and cultural factors that need to be taken into account in any merged operation.
Leonard Christopher, "Tools and Requirements for Merging Offset and Digital EP Workflows" in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP19), 2003, pp 466 - 466, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2003.19.1.art00004_2