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

In addition, managers of the content and print process can begin to experience the benefits of a greatly reduced need for proofing and validation along with an increase in efficiency of the entire process.

The JDF file format provides the job information that has been written and communicated in many different ways into an automated process. This infrastructure begins to allow an entire digital workflow process to create a true manufacturing process with real time information.