An automated print prepress workflow, including a memory; a processor communicating with the memory; and a job ticket stored in the memory, is provided. The job ticket includes a plurality of print job related parameters and a set of print job related information. The workflow further includes a conditional branching arrangement defining a plurality of print job prepress development paths, each one of these plurality of paths including one or more print job prepress development operations. Prepress development of the print job may include automatically branching to one of the plurality of print job prepress development paths responsive to the processor reading one or both of the (1) the one or more of the plurality of print job related parameters and (2) at least part of the print job related information set. One or more of the print job prepress development operations may be automatically adaptively processed.