1. A method for adaptively deferring prepress operations for a workflow, the method comprising; analyzing, by a prepress workflow system, a workflow to determine whether the performance of one or more prepress operations in the workflow can be deferred to a printing device; storing a deferred operations ticket corresponding to the workflow, wherein the deferred operations ticket contains one or more deferrable prepress operations; receiving, by the prepress workflow system, a document to be processed by the workflow; sending the document and the deferred operations ticket to the printing device; performing, by the printing device, the one or more deferrable prepress operations contained in the deferred operations ticket on the document to produce a processed document; and printing the processed document.