Integrating E-commerce And Print Management

printCafe is also in agreement, and stresses that PCX should not be viewed as a standard by the industry.

"PCX was never intended to be any kind of a standard," notes Olin. "It is simply an outlining of the method by which people could interchange data with our solutions."

Although neither PrintTalk nor printCafe see themselves in the standards business, both are involved and contributing to larger standards organizations such as CIP4, the JDF standards organization.