JDF Workflow: A Guide to Automation in the Graphic Communications Industry

Thomas Hoffmann-Walbeck, Sebastian Riegel (translated by John Joseph Dobrowits)

Job Definition Format (JDF) and Job Messaging Format (JMF), based on the XML standard, provide one of the most important recent innovations for the automation of print production. JDF Workflow: A Guide to Automation in the Graphic Communications Industry, demonstrates that it is more than just a data format by providing a comprehensive examination of the format as well as the workflow that can be built with the help of JDF.

With the help of many examples from order management systems, prepress, printing, and finishing, typical graphic communications production processes and their implementation in the JDF model are presented. Some special concerns for package printing are also discussed.

The book is ideal for apprentices in the graphic communications industry, students of printing and media technology, practitioners in print companies or manufacturers, as well as computer scientists.

Published at PIA