CIP4 Announces Update to Key Product Certification Standards

“As with any new testing program, you quickly learn if there are any fundamental errors in your requirements when real products start arriving for testing,” said Dr. Mark Bohan, Vice President of Research and Technology at PIA/GATF. “In JDF 1.2 ICS’ the levels of compliance for JDF and JMF were synonymous; if you wanted to certify that a product was capable of level two JDF processing, it had to also certify that it was capable of level two JMF messaging. We discovered that companies applying for certification wanted to certify for level two or three JDF processing, but lower levels of JMF support, and we couldn’t do that with testing based upon the old ICS’.”