A system and method for managing production printing workflow is disclosed. The
system includes workflow management software which manages and facilitates the
procedural stages of the workflow including job origination, job preparation, job
submission and job fulfillment. The workflow management software provides an integrated
object oriented interface which visually reflects and interacts with the workflow.
The software further provides functionality for efficient page level modifications
to documents at the job preparation stage. This functionality allows such modifications
to be easily made to selected pages and visually verified by displaying visual
representations of the modifications on visual representations of the pages. In
particular, the insertion and attributes of ordered media, such as tab separator
pages, is visually represented. This allows an operator to visually verify ordered
media ordering and placement and coordinate with the production output device to
properly insert and efficiently utilize the ordered media.