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

JDF In Action

The University of Tennessee’s Graphic Arts Service department is one of the leading in-plants in JDF implementation. Manager Gary Williford began his JDF journey when he started looking into PDF automation and workflow process improvements.

Williford says he “understood globally what the concept was about, but really came to the realization of how this could work when we were doing the analysis of implementing a PDF-automated workflow. The natural thing was to take the workflow to the next level with JDF.