ABCs of JDFMargaret MotamedDirector, Software Platforms, EFIEducation and Marketing Officer, CIP4

Sometimes New Technology is Not Easily Adopted . . .. . . a few examples

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home”

Ken OlsenChairman of DEC

1977

“640K ought to be enough for anybody”

Bill GatesCEO, Microsoft

1981

“It’s only a toy”

Gardiner Green HubbardFounder of the National Geographic Society

& Alexander Graham Bell’s father-in-law1876

“By the turn of this century, we will live in a paperless society. ”

Roger SmithCEO, General Motors

1986

Before: The World Of Sticky Notes

After: Electronic Information at Your Fingertips

The Time Has Come . . .. . . For Job Definition Format!

Things We Know About JDF JDF is really just a way to connect pieces of equipment

and software together.

It is specific to a print workflow

JDF as an Workflow Automation EnablerJDF job ticket flows with the job from creation to completion

JDF captures appropriate information at each stage

JDF creates structured record of job for accounting mgmt.

EFI Print MIS

Customer

PrepressWorkflowSystem

Fiery Server

Proofing

JDF Job Ticket

Data Collection

JDF Job Update/Delete

It’s Real Case Stories

Celebrating their 130th anniversary this year

95 employees

$24 million in annual revenue

5 MAN Roland Sheetfed Presses

Goals/expectations:

Streamline production and maximize automation

Increase productivity by 50% by eliminating redundancy Measurable Results, phase 1:

15 minute reduction in makeready time Elimination of redundant data entry at the press

Hagen OA MIS to MAN Roland Pecom Data passed from MIS to Pecom:

Job header info, Paper requirements (type, quantity, etc.), Plate information, Form information, Color/Ink information, Expected good and estimated waste quantities

Data can pass from Pecom to MIS, phase 2

JDF Integration

Background

JDFExperience

JDF Spec is HUGE: We Need Subsets

Base ICSBase ICS

JDF SpecificationJDF Specification

Prepress to Prepress to Conv. Conv. PrintingPrinting

ICSICS

MIS ICSMIS ICS

MIS toMIS toSheetfedSheetfed

Conv.Conv.Printing Printing

ICSICS

MIS toMIS toPrepress Prepress

ICSICS

Binding Binding ICSICS

TBDTBDMIS toMIS to

Domain Domain ICSICS

Integ. Integ. DigiPrint DigiPrint

ICSICS

LayoutLayoutCreatorCreator

totoImposit.Imposit.

ICSICS

“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future”

Nils BohrNobel laureate in

Physics

JDF Futures JDF 1.3

Packaging Advertising Authentication Web production

Additional ICS’s Publishing to Prepress Imposition Prepress Manger to

Prepress Stripping Format Conversion Intent to Imposition

Zvi GrillichesProfessor of EconomicsHarvard University

“The cost of computing has dropped exponentially, but the cost of thinking is what it always was. ”

Please visit the JDF Pavilion for more information!