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From Our Leadership
Dear CIP4 Members,
Excitement is building as Print 09 approaches! Themed as "My Print," the show will run Friday, September 11 through Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, USA.
CIP4 is offering a full range of opportunities for members to promote their JDF solutions from exhibiting in the JDF Works Print Shop Live program to listing their wares in a free! JDF Roadmap listing. Deadlines are short . . . Be sure to sign up today!
Margaret Motamed
CIP4 CEO and Director of Software Platforms, EFI
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Ready, Set, Go . . . JDF at Print 09
Last call to participate in CIP4-sponsored programs at Print 09! Please note these important deadlines:
The JDF Works Print Shop Live program, a recreation of the highly successful JDF-driven automated production lines at Graph Expo '08, will feature an impressive list of workflow partners at Print 09. If
you are hosting or participating in a JDF Works Print Shop Live site,
your workflow description and diagram is due to Barbara McGowan by August 5th.
The JDF
Print Automation Pavilion is designed to showcase JDF solutions, and answer the most complex integration questions from Print 09 attendees. Contact Jim Harvey today if you're interested in exhibiting your JDF product, and get info on pod layouts and pricing.
The JDF Roadmap is THE guide to Print Automation at Print 09, where
thousands of copies will be distributed to attendees at the show entrance. If your company is
exhibiting at Print 09, Submit your free listing no later than July 29th for JDF Roadmap.
Who will win this year's CIPPI Awards? Come to the CIPPI Awards ceremony to find out. For details . . .
Stay in the loop with all CIP4's Print 09 plans by attending the next Education and
Marketing Committee meeting on August 5th.
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JDF SPACE, A Big Draw at Graphitec
 In spite of a tough European economy, JDF SPACE at Graphitec Convertec
(June 9-12, 2009, Paris), attracted over 200 visitors in 4 days. The booth was organized by Patrick Cahuet of 1PRIME with CIP4 members running a total of 32 presentations and 4 tutorials. It was an impressive showing at the most important graphic arts industry exhibition
in France.
Dedicated to workflow automation, JDF SPACE was named as one of the three
"must see" spots in the
show catalogue. CIP4 members who presented JDF integration case studies included: Agfa, ECOFFI, FUJIFILM, GamSys, Heidelberg, Intraprint, KBA, manroland and RHAPSO GRAPHISOFT. Additionally, special guest Ghent PDF Group presented their latest research on PDF. Congratulations to all on their efforts of making JDF workflow
integration more familiar to French printers!
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JDF Shoot Out at IPA
 CIP4's Chief Education & Marketing
Officer, Mark Wilton (pictured) leads the IPA Technical Conference in reviewing
the results of the JDF shoot out. Similar in format to other shoot out sessions at IPA that focus on proofing and color gamut testing, the JDF test had good participation from CIP4 members and judges alike. The panel of judges included:- Rohit Gangwar, EFI
- Jim Harvey, CIP4
- Chris Heric, Christopher Heric
& Co
- Scott Marienthal, HIFLEX
- Dr Abhay Sharma; Ryerson
University
- Mark Wilton, Wilton &
Partners/CIP4
When it came to CIP4 member vs. LayCrimp ICS, and vs. MIS-to-Prepress ICS, the panel ensured that it was a fair representation and assessment of JDF submission and processing for each of the tests.
Of course, each vendor member had a different take on the results from their system.
"Kudos to all the vendor members who gave this a shot," reported Mark
Wilton, Wilton & Partners/CIP4. "It was an exciting session to be a part
of. In a real world scenario, you would have a
specific solution implemented at your facility, whose connectivity would be vigorously tested before going live with jobs. However, this shoot out proved to be a strong indicator whether a vendor can perform in the JDF realm."
More
JDF tests and showcases at tradeshows and conferences are planned, with hopefully more vendors that are up for the challenge. For results from IPA . . .
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JDF User Group
Printing Industries of America kicked off their July JDF User's Group meeting in Little Rock AK, with a tour of operations provided by Democrat Printing. This innovative company has integrated
file acceptance and prepress, and is continually expanding their automation bringing in new equipment from Goss, MBO and others. So far they've been able
to reduce prepress staff from eight to two with the automation
they've completed to date.
The JDF Users' Group agenda featured
presentations from Marcia Bonsell of Communicorp, (a wholly owned division of
the insurance company AFLAC) and Brian Rooney of Mimeo.com. One of the many lively discussions at the meeting concerned printers' reluctance to implement JDF. Many users agreed, that if knowledgeable at all, printers think it's the vendors' role to
work out automation issues, and don't realize they need to drive their
own automation efforts. Unfortunately, printers who are not implementing JDF automation don't hear
enough about the benefits from those who are.
An action item was taken by User Group members to organize a free seminar open to Print 2009
attendees on Saturday, September 12th, from 7:30-10:00 AM.
(Room location and agenda to be sent to CIP4 members via email.) Several
printers agreed to make "printer-to-printer" case studies, and many vendors agreed to both participate and split the costs of the program. Support is forthcoming from Printing
Industries of America and CIP4, as well.
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Faculty Openings at Ryerson University
Applications
are invited for various full and part-time teaching positions in the School of
Graphic Communications Management, for the 2009-10 academic year. Ryerson's Heidelberg School of Graphic Communications Management is housed in a state-of-the-art press and prepress facility completed in
2003. The School offers the only B.Tech. in Graphic Communications Management
in Canada, and has an enrollment of 400 students at the undergraduate level.
For full details. . .
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NEWS FROM CIP4 WORKING GROUPS
CIP4 Interop Dates Set for Fall
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JDF 1.4 Tools and Schema Now Available
A complete set of JDF 1.4 open source tools are now publicly available for download. The schema is also ready for download
and distribution from the Technical Resources page of the CIP4 website.
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Report from the O&P (Prepress) Workgroup
The O&P Workgroup has made
good progress towards the JDF1.4 MIS to Prepress ICS
(Interoperability spec). Changes include a few new JDF1.4 features and also syncronization with the other
JDF1.4 ICS documents. There was also an
effort to enhance the "value" of the ICS by allowing easier
testability while reducing the number of variations allowed.
Due to the amount of freedom in the structure of JDF in the previous ICS, it made it very
difficult to design and test a Prepress Workflow to work with all
variations. Based on the
experience of current integrations, we created a few use cases, allowing only two variations: a simple and a detailed description; and an "all
shared" vs. "all on product part" structure. Additionally, the O&P WG also helped to
evaluate the results from the recent IPA JDF Test Drive.
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NEWS FROM CIP4 MEMBERS
WIN and Metrix Optimize Sheet Size and
Maximize Number Up Automatically
Prism's latest management
information system (MIS), Prism WIN 2009, enables the power of Metrix
production planning software for seamless, automated layout creation of all
sheetfed and flatwork. With one click from a quote or job, Metrix will optimize
sheet size and maximize number up for the desired production process. The
proposed layout is available to be viewed directly in WIN and passed on to
pre-press. More . . .
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PODi and DICE Announce Merger
PODi, the Digital Printing Initiative, and DICE, the
Digital Imaging Customer Exchange, announced in May that the two
member-supported organizations will merge and move forward under the
management
of Caslon, a PODi Affiliate. When the merger is completed, the expanded
organization will offer enhanced benefits and new resources to all
members, who will enjoy
the full resources of both of these prominent digital print industry
organizations. More. . .
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"Automate to Profit" in South Africa
Interested in expanding
your JDF solution sales to South African markets? This year's "Automate to Profit" Conference and the new Print
Expo to be held October 20-23, 2009 in the Johannesburg Expo Centre should be in your plans. Organized by CIP4 Certified Expert
Dewald Rosema of Exell Technologies, this event has grown over the last couple of
years to become a full conference and demonstration/exhibit area. They would like highlight JDF-enabled
solutions and possibly include demonstrations of your company's
interoperability with products from your various partners.
Billed as the first ever "Automation Park" in South Africa, Dewald is looking for inspired speakers and vendor
participation to ensure that the program is better than ever.
Contact Dewald Rosema to sign up. For more details . . .
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Prof. Kular Writes on Process Integration
Ryerson University professor,
Chris Kular has
published an article on "Process Integration for the Graphic Arts
Workflow" in Graphic Arts Magazine, (June 2009). The article
describes how process integration and efficient workflows may be one of the
saviors for our industry, and help to speed up the recovery process. Prof. Kular
suggests that JDF is one of the enabling technologies that promotes integration
between production and bindery. "The goal in any print media operation or
bindery is to maintain a full schedule of profitable work in every shift,"
writes Kular. Read the full article online . . . Contact Chris Kular to come to
your company and talk about savings through workflow automation.
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JDF User Group Meeting
Live JDF Integration
July 22-23, 2009
Democrat Printing and Lithographing Co.
Little Rock, AR, USA
Print 2009
Sept. 11-16, 2009
JDF Works and JDF Demonstration Pavilion
McCormick Place
Chicago, IL, USA
JGAS 2009
October 6-10, 2009
Tokyo, Japan
2009 Fall Interop
October 19-23, 2009
Fraunhofer IGD
Darmstadt, Germany
Automate to Profit Conference
October 20-23, 2009 Johannesburg
Expo Centre
Johannesburg
South Africa
JDF User Group Meeting
November 11, 2009
Converge Conference
Orlando, FL, USA
Graphics Canada
Nov. 12 -14, 2009
"Print Automation Pavilion"
International Centre
Toronto, Canada
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JDF Expert Certificate
Training Program provides a comprehensive understanding of JDF (Job Definition Format) in 14
separate training modules, each addressing specific topics on
process automation using JDF. The program ends with a final examination for
those interested in earning a JDF Expert Certificate.
The "JDF
Expert Certificate" training program is specifically designed for those
persons leading their company's efforts to implement JDF based
automated processes and CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing) into
their operations: CIO's, CTO's and lead systems and technical managers
at printing, prepress, and publishing companies around the world.
For more information
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EDITORS
Mark Wilton, CIP4 Education & Marketing Officer
Barbara McGowan, B2Marketing
The JDF Bulletin is published by CIP4, c/o VISCHER,
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CIP4's mission to bring together vendors, consultants, and end-users of
the graphics communications industry and associated business sectors to
encourage computer based integration of all processes and streamlining
the print production process.
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