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Offset Lithography – Printing to you and me! – Part 10 – 22nd April 2009

• CIP4 explains JDF as:
  JDF is a comprehensive XML based file format and proposed industry standard for end to end job ticket specifications combined with a message description standard and message interchange protocol.
• JDF is designed to streamline information exchange between different applications and systems.
• JDF is intended to enable the entire industry, including media, design, graphic arts, and on-demand and e-commerce companies, to implement and work with individual workflow solutions.
• JDF will allow integration of heterogeneous products from diverse vendors to create seamless workflow solutions.

The most prominent features of JDF are:

• Ability to carry a print job from genesis through completion. This includes a detailed description of the creative, pre-press, press, post press and delivery processes.
• Ability to bridge the communication gap between production and Management Information Services (MIS). This ability enables instantaneous job and device tracking as well as detailed pre and post calculation of jobs in the graphic arts.
• Ability to bridge the gap between the customer’s view of product and the manufacturing process by defining a process independent product view as well as a process dependent production view of a print job.
• Ability to define and track any user defined workflow without constraints on the supported workflow models. This includes serial, parallel, overlapping, and iterative processing in arbitrary combinations and over distributed locations.
• Ability to do so (1, 2, 3 and 4) under nearly pre-condition.

To be continued…

See parts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine of this blog – Offset Lithography - Printing to you and me!

See our recent Design of the Times Blog Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5

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