ABCs of JDF

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ABCs of JDF

• Margaret Motamed
• Director, Software Platforms, EFI
• Education and Marketing Officer, CIP4

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Sometimes New Technology is Not Easily
Adopted . . .

• . . . a few examples

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There is no reason anyone would want a computer
in their home
Ken Olsen Chairman of DEC 1977
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640K ought to be enough for anybody
Bill Gates CEO, Microsoft 1981
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Its only a toy
Gardiner Green Hubbard Founder of the National
Geographic Society Alexander Graham Bells
father-in-law 1876
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By the turn of this century, we will live in a
paperless society.
Roger Smith CEO, General Motors 1986
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Before The World Of Sticky Notes
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After Electronic Information at Your Fingertips
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The Time Has Come . . .

• . . . For Job Definition Format!

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Things We Know About JDF

• JDF is really just a way to connect pieces of
  equipment and software together.
• It is specific to a print workflow

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JDF as an Workflow Automation Enabler

• JDF job ticket flows with the job from creation
  to completion
• JDF captures appropriate information at each
  stage
• JDF creates structured record of job for
  accounting mgmt.

Fiery Server
JDF Job Ticket
EFI Print MIS
Prepress Workflow System
Data Collection
Proofing
Customer
JDF Job Update/Delete
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Its Real

• Case Stories

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• Celebrating their 130th anniversary this year
• 95 employees
• 24 million in annual revenue
• 5 MAN Roland Sheetfed Presses

• Goals/expectations
• Streamline production and maximize automation
• Increase productivity by 50 by eliminating
  redundancy
• Measurable Results, phase 1
• 15 minute reduction in makeready time
• Elimination of redundant data entry at the press

• Hagen OA MIS to MAN Roland Pecom
• Data passed from MIS to Pecom
• Job header info, Paper requirements (type,
  quantity, etc.), Plate information, Form
  information, Color/Ink information, Expected good
  and estimated waste quantities
• Data can pass from Pecom to MIS, phase 2

• Background

JDF Integration
JDF Experience
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JDF Spec is HUGE We Need Subsets
JDF Specification
Base ICS
Prepress to Conv. Printing ICS
MIS ICS
Binding ICS
Integ. DigiPrint ICS
Layout Creator to Imposit. ICS
MIS to Sheetfed Conv. Printing ICS
MIS to Prepress ICS
TBD MIS to Domain ICS
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if
its about the future
Nils Bohr Nobel laureate in Physics
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JDF Futures

• JDF 1.3
• Packaging
• Advertising
• Authentication
• Web production

• Additional ICSs
• Publishing to Prepress
• Imposition
• Prepress Manger to Prepress
• Stripping
• Format Conversion
• Intent to Imposition

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The cost of computing has dropped
exponentially, but the cost of thinking is what
it always was.
Zvi Grilliches Professor of Economics Harvard
University
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Please visit the JDF Pavilion for more
information!