You can enhance services, control costs and streamline operations by using JDF data to link all elements in the print process. CIP4 created the Job Definition Format.

By Janice Reese

We largely still depend on paper-based processes that are isolated and disconnected with our current way of doing business. These original processes were set up before we had the ability to think of connecting systems with intelligent information and automation. As the creative options expand, so does the need for simplifying and standardizing the critical information elements each process requires.