20. A program product according to claim 19 wherein after said step of submitting, said method further comprises a step of verifying, at said print service provider location, that said production ready document will be produced at said print service provider location as designed at the designer location and, if not, correcting said production ready document to ensure production substantially as designed.
19. A computer readable medium storing instructions for generating a production ready document in a commercial printing environment including a designer location and a print service provider location, when executed, the instructions causing the following steps to occur, comprising: selecting a document profile corresponding to a particular type of production project from a plurality of document profiles available at the print service provider location; creating a file at the designer location using said selected document profile and updated device configuration information from the print service provider location to ensure that said file is a production ready document; automatically checking for common errors associated during a prepress stage by automatically pre-flighting the document to be printed; automatically revising incorrect printing instructions and adding missing printing instructions; automatically providing a remote proofing function for a customer of the document to be printed and automatically tracking the printing of the document by continuously monitoring and updating a status of the document to be printed; submitting said production ready document to the print service provider location via an electronic network; and performing automated printing and at least one of automated finishing, automated packaging and automated shipping using said production ready document.