Offset Lithography – Printing to you and me! – Part 9
Offset Lithography – Printing to you and me! – Part 9 – 21st April 2009
The real and ongoing revolution
The real evolution has been in the International Cooperation for Integration of Prepress, Press and Postpress (CIP3 and CIP4), and then leading on to JDF, which allows for direct pre-press to press links, and beyond to post press links. CIP3 was the forerunner of this technology formed by Heidelberg in 1994 but quickly joined by some of the biggest names in offset press manufacture, including KBA, Komori, manroland and Mitsubishi. It also included the stalwarts of pre-press, Agfa, Creo (no Kodak) and Fuji, as well as the top post press players including Muller Martini and Polar-Mohr.
For the first time, the industry clubbed together to form a Vendor independent interface which would span all production processes in the art of printing, allowing for the goal of reduced production times, less waste, and maximum efficiency. The concept revolved around the Print Production Format (PPL) using the language of pre- press- PostScript- to create a file full of information on any given job, essentially an intelligent, electronic job bag, complete with automated instructions – well, that was the plan. CIP3 did achieve some success, especially in the area of ink key presetting and post press operations. CIP4 quickly followed CIP3 in the autumn of 2000, and picked up the management of another collaboration that Adobe, Agfa, Heidelberg and manroland had put together using an XML based job ticket called job definition Format (JDF). CIP4 now manages that under a ‘not for profit entity opens to all’ arrangement. CIP4 has around 320 members.
To be continued…
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