ABCs of JDF Margaret Motamed Director, Software Platforms, EFI Education and Marketing Officer, CIP4 Margaret Motamed Director, Software Platforms, EFI Education 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 Olsen Chairman of DEC 1977

“640K ought to be enough for anybody” Bill Gates CEO, Microsoft 1981

“It’s only a toy” Gardiner Green Hubbard Founder of the National Geographic Society & Alexander Graham Bell’s father-in-law 1876

“By the turn of this century, we will live in a paperless society. ” Roger Smith CEO, 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 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 Enabler JDF 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 Prepress Workflow System Fiery Server Proofing JDF Job Ticket Data Collection JDF Job Update/Delete

It’s Real Case Stories

Celebrating their 130 th anniversary this year 95 employees $24 million in annual revenue 5 MAN Roland Sheetfed Presses Celebrating their 130 th 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 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 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 JDF Experience JDF Experience

JDF Spec is HUGE: We Need Subsets Base ICS JDF Specification Prepress to Conv.PrintingICS MIS ICS MIS to SheetfedConv.PrintingICS PrepressICS BindingICS TBD DomainICS Integ.DigiPrintICSLayoutCreatortoImposit.ICS

“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future” Nils Bohr Nobel laureate in Physics

JDF Futures JDF 1.3 Packaging Advertising Authentication Web production 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 Grilliches Professor of Economics Harvard University Zvi Grilliches Professor of Economics Harvard University “The cost of computing has dropped exponentially, but the cost of thinking is what it always was. ”

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