Welcome to the JDF Pavilion

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Welcome to the JDF Pavilion
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JDF Overview and Update

• CIP4 Organization

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Print Applications of JDF

• James E. Harvey
• CIP4 Organization
• Executive_Director_at_CIP4.org

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NAGASA Breakfast at Print 05
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JDF How is it happening?

• James E. Harvey
• CIP4 Organization
• Executive_Director_at_cip4.org

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Who is CIP4?

• International Standards Association
• Registered DoJ/FTC Standards Development
  Organization
• Shares code, tools and examples
• Interoperability Testing
• News, references, User Forums and educational
  information
• Over 300 member companies

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CIP4 Standards

• Print Production Format
• Inherited from CIP3.
• Used in ink key presettings.
• Mapped to JDF no further development
• PrintTalk Reference Implementation and Schema
• Entrusted to CIP4 in 2005
• Supports all print business transactions,
  including proposal, estimating, request for
  estimate, invoicing, and so on.
• Kept current with JDF developments
• Job Definition Format
• Specification
• Schema
• Includes Job Messaging Format (JMF)

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CIP4 Technical Working Groups

• Advertising  
• Capabilities 
• Color Workflow  
• Device messaging/Job tracking  
• Digital Printing  
• Finishing  
• Gravure  
• ICS  Discussion forum MIS  
• Newspaper  
• Origination and Prepress  
• Packaging Label 

• PrintTalk  
• Product Certification  
• Product Description  
• System Behavior and Interoperability  
• Tools Infrastructure  
• Web Printing
• New in 2005 User Groups 
• English
• French
• German
• Japanese
• Spanish

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History

• June 2000 CIP4 formed
• May 2001 JDF 1.0
• May 2002 JDF 1.1
• Sept 2002 JDF 1.1a
• May 2004 JDF 1.2
• Jan 2005 ICS Documents
• Sept 2005 JDF 1.3

Alpha
Beta
Production-ready
Extensions improvements
Web Printing, Advertising, Packaging
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JDF is One Tool in the Box
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JDF Availability

• JDF Marketplace (http//www.cip4.org/marketplace
  /intro.php)
• 127 listings in March 2004
• As of 7 September 2005
• 184 products and services
• 360 listings
• From 61 companies
• Unlisted 50 additional products (non-members
  and OEM/VAR resellers many small MIS systems
  vendors)

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Installations

• Who is using JDF?
• (based on a June sample survey of CIP4s 136
  vendors)
• There are between 2425 and 2878 current JDF
  installations (95 confidence)
• There are between 6233 and 6686 companies pending
  purchase of JDF systems. (95 confidence)
• See www.cip4.org/cippi/ for award winning case
  studies

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CIPPI Case StudiesMost innovative use of process
automation technology

• Druckerei Bauer KG, Vienna, Austria
• Incorporated Hiflex MIS System, Muller Martini AG
  PrimaPlus AMRYS saddle-stitcher, MAN Roland
  presses equipped with the PECOM system
• Reduced make-ready process for basic set-up from
  about 10 minutes to 3 minutes on Stichers
• 622,741 improvement in Net Profit attributed to
• faster make-ready on presses
• Improvement of the (now digital) internal
  communication processes
• Increase in automation, transparency and
  flexibility
• ROI of 220 in first year of operations

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CIPPI Case StudiesMost innovative use of process
automation technology

• Williamson Printing Corporation, Dallas, TX
• Incorporated Esko-Graphics Scope workflow version
  1.0, Kodak (Creo) UpFront Version 3.1, Heidelberg
  cutters
• Eliminated manual imposition and automated
  stitcher setup
• Prepress operator time to recreate an imposition
  has been reduced by 95 per job
• Job latency has been reduced by one hour

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CIPPI Case StudiesBiggest improvement in
efficiency and customer responsiveness

• Kraft Druck und Verlag GmbH, Ettlingen, Germany
• Incorporated Kodak (Creo) Prinergy Workflow
  System 2.3, Kodak (Creo) Synapse Link 2.0, MAN
  Roland presses running the PECOM system, Hiflex
  MIS System
• An increase in productive hours of 9.6 , ROI of
  446.5 within five years, IRR of 168
• Elimination of full-time scheduler position
• The CSR can automatically generate invoices
  because materials are now automatically booked
  with 100 accuracy against the job
• CSRs provide customers with more precise
  information, much faster, thus considerably
  improving customer services and responsiveness

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CIPPI Case StudiesBiggest improvement in
efficiency and customer responsiveness

• Lavigne Inc, Worcester, MA
• Incorporated Printable Technologies PrintOne
  Customer Center (ASP web to print software) and
  HP/Indigo ProductionFlow Version 1.1
• Automated ordering and prepress
• 92 reduction in customer processing costs
• Added only two people while
• Increasing the number of end users from 150 to
  over 42,000
• Increased orders processed per month from 25 to
  over 700 orders per month

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CIPPI Case StudiesBest cost/benefit realization

• Action Printing, Fond du Lac, WI
• Incorporated Muller Martini Prima with AMRYS
  (Saddle Stitcher) and Kodak (Creo) UpFront
  Software
• Reduced average setup time from 85 minutes to 24
  minutes
• Eliminated one of three stitcher lines while
  increasing work by 17
• Breakeven of 3.2 years

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CIPPI Case StudiesBest cost/benefit realization

• Druckhaus Berlin-Mitte GmbH (DBM), Berlin,
  Germany
• Products incorporated MAN Roland presses equipped
  with PECOM system including and Hiflex MIS System
• Reduced job data entry from four iterations to
  one
• Manual entry of job data in PECOM is no longer
  required
• Morning production meeting reduced from 30 to 10
  minutes, afternoon meeting cancelled A saving
  of seven man-hours per day
• 20 increase in productive hours in two years
• ROI of 991.9 within five years
• IRR of 236

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CIPPI Case StudiesMost innovative use of process
automation technology

• Druckerei Bauer KG, Vienna, Austria
• Products incorporated
• Hiflex MIS System
• Muller Martini AG PrimaPlus AMRYS saddle-stitcher
• MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG presses equipped
  with the PECOM system including four MAN Roland
  700 presses (74x104 one 10-color, two five-color
  with varnishing unit, one 4-color.)

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CIPPI Case StudiesDruckerei Bauer KG

• Old Workflow
• The first data entry was done when the customer
  order was specified and estimated in the Hiflex
  MIS
• The CSR then printed a job ticket that was
  forwarded.
• Data entered again when job arrived at press
  (e.g., customer name, job name, order number,
  format, paper thickness, etc.)
• Data entered again when the job arrived at the
  saddle stitcher (e.g., customer name, job name,
  order number, run length, deadlines, and product
  specifications)
• Post-production, operators manually entered the
  produced quantity and the fact that the
  production run had finished!

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Druckerei Bauer KG NewWorkflow
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CIPPI Case StudiesDruckerei Bauer KG

• Results
• Reduced make-ready process for basic set-up from
  about 10 minutes to 3 minutes on Stichers
• 622,741 improvement in Net Profit attributed to
• faster make-ready on presses
• Improvement of the (now digital) internal
  communication processes
• Increase in automation, transparency and
  flexibility
• ROI of 220 in first year of operations

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CIPPI Case StudiesMost innovative use of process
automation technology

• Williamson Printing Corporation, Dallas, TX
• Products incorporated
• Esko-Graphics Scope workflow version 1.0
• Kodak (Creo) UpFront Version 3.1
• Heidelberg cutters

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CIPPI Case StudiesWilliamson Printing

• Old Workflow
• Production managers (PMs) draw an imposed layout
  plan for the press with paper pencil
• PMs wait as much as 15 minutes for imposition
  workstation
• Imposition, done by hand, takes 15-30 minutes
• Cutters are setup manually which took 25-30
  minutes

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CIPPI Case StudiesWilliamson Printing

• New Workflow
• Data entered by PMs into the UpFront system and
  the best imposition for that particular job is
  calculated
• A JDF file is created that is exported to the
  Esko-Graphics Scope workflow.
• The workflow, using that data, automatically
  generates an imposition layout and pages are
  entered into the page list, as that information
  is typically not available at the moment of the
  calculation of the imposition in Upfront.
• Information about the imposition is also sent to
  the finishing machines and is used to
  automatically setup cutters,

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CIPPI Case StudiesWilliamson Printing
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CIPPI Case StudiesWilliamson Printing

• Results
• Prepress operator time to recreate an imposition
  has been reduced by 95 per job
• The number of errors in prepress has been reduced
  by 100 (e.g., 0)
• Job latency has been reduced by one hour

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CIPPI Case StudiesBiggest improvement in
efficiency and customer responsiveness

• Kraft Druck und Verlag GmbH, Ettlingen, Germany
• Products incorporated
• Kodak (Creo) Prinergy Workflow System 2.3
• Kodak (Creo) Synapse Link 2.0
• MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG presses running the
  PECOM system (including three MAN Roland 700
  presses)
• Hiflex MIS System

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CIPPI Case StudiesKraft Druck

• Old Workflow
• Press department receives job schedule from the
  scheduler as a printout
• Paper job tickets arrived in press department
• Final planning late changes were marked
  manually on the printout
• Job data entered manually into the PECOM system
  (Error Prone/Inconsistent data)
• Unavoidable modifications manually corrected in
  the PECOM system
• After production, the press operator manually
  entered information about the produced quantity
  and job finished into the the Hiflex MIS.
• Problems
• Multiple entry of job data was common
• Risk of typing errors / inconsistent data
• Communication of job information and status
  required several steps and several people (high
  administrative overhead)
• 5 of the exposed plates were not entered into
  Production Data Collection, yet 96 of the
  lost plates could be eventually accounted for

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CIPPI Case StudiesKraft Druck

• New Workflow
• A single manual entry of job data into the Hiflex
  MIS
• Hiflex uses the JDF interface to create customer
  details and printing instructions
• The system automatically generates complete
  production sequence and sends data to subsequent
  Kodak (Creo) and MAN Roland systems
• All machines events are reported back via JMF and
  flow into the Hiflex order book, the Hiflex
  Production Data Collection and the Hiflex
  Scheduling board

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CIPPI Case StudiesKraft Druck

• Results
• An increase in productive hours (print run hours)
  of 9.6
• Each day, prepress operators save 24 minutes time
  in job creation
• Elimination of full-time scheduler position
• The CSR can automatically generate invoices
  because materials are now automatically booked
  with 100 accuracy against the job
• CSRs provide customers with more precise
  information, much faster, thus considerably
  improving customer services and responsiveness
• ROI of 446.5 within five years, IRR of 168.

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CIPPI Case StudiesBiggest improvement in
efficiency and customer responsiveness

• Lavigne Inc, Worcester, MA
• Products incorporated
• Printable Technologies PrintOne Customer Center
  (ASP web to print software)
• HP/Indigo ProductionFlow Version 1.1

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CIPPI Case StudiesLavigne

• Old Workflow
• A print on demand business that was basically a
  web site that emailed job tickets
• Internal workflow was very much similar to a
  conventional job
• CSRs used conventional order entry, file
  acquision process
• Pre-press conducted traditional imposition,
  layout, crop mark, etc. tasks a job by job basis

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CIPPI Case StudiesLavigne

• New Workflow

PDF OPI Comments
ProductionFlow/DFE
JDF
Order
(JDF)
Press
Printable JT
(JDF)
Finishing/Shipping
Billing/Reporting
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CIPPI Case StudiesLavigne

• Results
• 92 reduction in customer processing costs
• Added only two people while
• Increasing the number of end users from 150 to
  over 42,000
• Increased orders processed per month from 25 to
  over 700 orders per month

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CIPPI Case StudiesBest cost/benefit realization

• Action Printing, Fond du Lac, WI
• Products incorporated
• Muller Martini Prima with AMRYS (Saddle Stitcher)
• Kodak (Creo) UpFront Software

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CIPPI Case StudiesAction Printing

• Old Workflow
• Hardcopy setup instructions
• Saddle stitching lines were made ready using
  wrenches, feeler gauges, and Allen wrenches
• Machines commonly started up before all
  adjustments have been made properly

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CIPPI Case StudiesAction Printing

• New Workflow
• UpFront Layout Creation in Customer Service
• Export CIP file to a file server
• The Muller Saddle Stitcher Operator Finds the
  saved CIP instructions on the server and
  downloads these instructions to the machine
• The AMRYS makeready sequence is followed and all
  machine adjustments are made in less then five
  minutes

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CIPPI Case StudiesAction Printing

• Results
• Prior to implementation, setup averaged a total
  of 85 minutes
• After implementation, setup averaged 24 minutes
• Eliminated one of three stitcher lines while
  increasing work by 17
• Breakeven of 3.2 years

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CIPPI Case StudiesBest cost/benefit realization

• Druckhaus Berlin-Mitte GmbH (DBM), Berlin,
  Germany
• Products incorporated
• MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG press equipped with
  PECOM system including
• MAN Roland 700 (two units, 74x104 cm)
• MAN Roland 900 (one unit, 100x140 cm)
• Hiflex MIS System

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CIPPI Case StudiesDBM

• Old Workflow
• production data was processed four times
• The customer order was specified and estimated in
  the Hiflex MIS which also generated the job
  ticket
• The job was re-keyed into an internally-developed
  planning tool and the production hours were
  entered manually
• Using a manual planning board to visualize
  production, paper stripes where manually cut and
  labeled
• The press operator had to manually key in the
  relevant job specifications (format, paper
  thickness etc.) from the job ticket

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CIPPI Case StudiesDBM

• New Workflow
• Upon order entry relevant technical job data
  (e.g. time values for production, format, colors
  etc.) are automatically exported to the Hiflex
  Scheduling application
• CSR enters further information about shipment or
  external work and customer approvals
• Hiflex Scheduling, just before printing, sends
  job parameters to the PECOM system via JDF

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CIPPI Case StudiesDBM

• Results
• Manual entry of job data in PECOM is no longer
  required
• Morning production meeting reduced from 30 to 10
  minutes, afternoon meeting cancelled A saving
  of seven man-hours per day
• 20 increase in productive hours in two years
• ROI of 991.9 within five years
• IRR of 236

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MIS Workflow System Usage
91 Estimating
91 Billing Information
77 Order Entry
77 Scheduling
77 Sales Information
73 Paper and Product Inventory
73 Shop Floor Data Collection
50 Delivery Status
36 CRM
36 Maintenance schedules
36 Workflow analysis job or load balancing
23 DAM/Asset management asset transfer
18 Web-site/Ecommerce Front End
5 In-line quality control data
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MIS Workflow System Desire82 of respondents
wanted to upgrade
11 Estimating
11 Billing Information
17 Order Entry
28 Scheduling
11 Sales Information
22 Paper and Product Inventory
22 Shop Floor Data Collection
44 Delivery Status
28 CRM
33 Maintenance schedules
50 Workflow analysis job or load balancing
22 DAM/Asset management asset transfer
44 Web-site/Ecommerce Front End
50 In-line quality control data
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Why Automate?

• 92 said MIS workflow systems enhance
  efficiency, and
• 86 said MIS workflow systems improve the level
  of customer service that they can provide to
  customers, and
• 83 MIS workflow systems improve turn around
  times and the speed of production, but
• 57 said employees will work around the system if
  it adds requirements to their workload
  Automation is essential to success!

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What Implementing Printers are looking for out of
JDF?
75 Streamline information between systems/applications
75 Smoother flow of production
75 Reduce human error in data entry
75 Reduce labor
75 Improve responsiveness to customer requirements
69 Improve command and control of all operations
69 Reduce waste, including process waste
63 Increase capacity without increasing capital footprint
56 Ability to link customers with production process
44 Ability to link suppliers to business
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What Does JDF Do?

• One common language that supports the lifecycle
  of a print job (e.g., the job ticket standard)
• A flexible method for configuration of plant
  automation, workflows, and job production
• Common controller language for command and
  control of all production devices on the plant
  floor
• Device Capabilities Automating the handshake
  between devices (new in JDF 1.2)

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Job Ticket Lifecycle
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Data Sources

1. Customer files and meta data
2. JDF-enabled preflight software
3. Customers entry via your companys website or via
   an e-commerce partner
4. Defaults and presets on your own equipment
5. Job profiles and defaults set in your MIS
   systems
6. Direct entry

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JDF in Business Operations(JDF incorporates the
following PrintTalk objects)

• Request for Quote
• Quote
• Purchase Order
• Order Confirmation
• Cancellation
• Refusal
• Order Status Request

• Order Status Response
• Proof Approval Request
• Proof Approval Response
• Invoice

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JDF Building Blocks
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Functions of the MIS System

• Decompose JDF document instances and store
  information into a database or data store
• Compose JDF from its database or data store
• Read and validate JDF
• Write and validate JDF
• Be aware of input and parameter requirements of
  production devices on the plant floor
• Understand, read and write validated JMF

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What Can JMF Do?

• JMF controller may register w/ JDF-enabled MIS
  system
• The JMF controller may report information about
  the devices it supports to the JDF MIS system
• The JMF controller may report events, status, and
  results (or responses) to the JDF MIS system
  including the phase a job is in, counts,
  employees working the device, waste, and so on
• One JMF controller may communicate to another
• JDF MIS system may manage the controller/devices
  job queue

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A JMF Illustration
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Building on JDF
JDF
Product A
Product B
InteroperabilityConformanceSpecifications
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Interoperability Conformance Specification (ICS)
Documents

• 2005
• Base Interoperability Conformance Specification
  ICS
• MIS ICS
• MIS to Prepress ICS
• MIS to Conventional Printing - Sheet Fed ICS
• Prepress to Conventional Printing - Sheet Fed ICS
• Integrated Digital Printing ICS
• Binding ICS
• Layout Creator to Imposition (First ICS with no
  MIS Required)

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Example ICS Stack
Integrated Digital Printing ICS MIS to Prepress ICS MIS to Conventional Sheet Fed ICS Binding ICS
Integrated Digital Printing ICS MIS ICS MIS ICS MIS ICS
Base ICS Base ICS Base ICS Base ICS
JDF1.3 JDF1.3 JDF1.3 JDF1.3
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ICS Concepts

• JDF Specification is large, covers many
  interfaces
• Interoperability Conformance Specification (ICS)
• Defines a single interface in the workflow
• example between an MIS and a Prepress
  Application
• example between a Digital Printing Controller
  and a Digital Printing Device
• Defines the conformance requirements for
• Manager side
• Worker side
• What a Manager MUST send to its Worker
• What a Manager MUST accept from its Worker
• What a Worker MUST accept from its Manager
• What a Worker MUST return to its Manager

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Where to Start?

• Make someone responsible
• Pick a path (Customer or market where the impact
  will be greatest)
• Get your feet wet and prove out the ROI
• Document your current environment
• Discuss your vendors upgrade path
• Buy smart and make JDF part of your SOP and
  purchasing policy

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Dealer Opportunity

• Become the customers automation resource
• Bring the solution to your customer, dont wait
  for them to ask for one passively
• Get in the middle, be the solutions broker!
• Get smart on JDF enough to understand what
  needs to be exchanged between two vendors
• Staff Expertise vs. Subcontractors
• Training
• References

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JDF Expert Certificate Seminars
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Info, Registration and Program Details
www.ipa.org/jdf
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Dealer Opportunity

• Manage the project
• Set objectives
• Organize participants
• Set schedule and Milestones
• Coordinate communications
• Test and evaluate
• Train users

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Dealer Opportunity
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What do you need to do?

• Evaluate your current line-up
• Which manufacturers and products are JDF-enabled?
• Whats on the market (JDF Marketplace)?
• Are there holes to be filled?
• Develop a portfolio of solutions
• Identify automation opportunities
• Work with a lead customer
• Package the solution
• Propagate

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The Future of JDF

• 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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Thank You

• For more information visit WWW.CIP4.ORG