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

“It did for us in the press room and bindery what CTP did for us in prepress,” he continues. “JDF provides the basis for productivity gains and quality improvements in the production of the printed product. Productivity increases are made possible by automating press and cutter equipment setups. Quality improvements are achieved by the accuracy of the electronic setups of the equipment. Difficult ink blends that were next to impossible to set manually can now be matched to the proof with minimal labor time.”