1. Welcome to the JDF Pavilion

2. JDF Overview and Update
CIP4 Organization

3. Print Applications of JDF
James E. Harvey
CIP4 Organization

4. NAGASA Breakfast at Print ‘05

5. JDF: How is it happening?
James E. Harvey
CIP4 Organization

6. Who is CIP4? International Standards Association
Registered DoJ/FTC Standards Development Organization
Shares code, tools and examples
Interoperability Testing
News, references, User Forums and educational information
Over 300 member companies

7. CIP4 Standards Print Production Format
Inherited from CIP3.
Used in ink key presettings.
Mapped to JDF — no further development
PrintTalk Reference Implementation and Schema
Entrusted to CIP4 in 2005
Supports all print business transactions, including proposal, estimating, request for estimate, invoicing, and so on.
Kept current with JDF developments
Job Definition Format
Specification
Schema
Includes Job Messaging Format (JMF)

8. CIP4 Technical Working Groups
Advertising  
Capabilities 
Color Workflow  
Device messaging/Job tracking  
Digital Printing  
Finishing  
Gravure  
ICS  Discussion forum MIS  
Newspaper  
Origination and Prepress  
Packaging & Label 
PrintTalk  
Product Certification  
Product Description  
System Behavior and Interoperability  
Tools & Infrastructure  
Web Printing
New in 2005 — User Groups 
English
French
German
Japanese
Spanish

9. History June 2000 – CIP4 formed May 2001 – JDF 1.0 May 2002 – JDF 1.1
Sept 2002 – JDF 1.1a
May 2004 – JDF 1.2
Jan – ICS Documents
Sept 2005 – JDF 1.3
– Alpha
– Beta
– Production-ready
– Extensions & improvements
– Web Printing, Advertising, & Packaging

10. JDF is One Tool in the Box
PDF/X
UP3I
Papinet
ICC
PPML/VDX
PPML
IfraTrack
PrintTalk
CGATS SC6
PODi
IFRA
Space/X12
IDEAlliance

11. JDF Availability As of 7 September 2005
“JDF Marketplace” (
127 listings in March 2004
As of 7 September 2005
184 products and services
360 listings
From 61 companies
Unlisted — 50+ additional products (non-members and OEM/VAR resellers; many small MIS systems vendors)

12. Installations See www.cip4.org/cippi/ for award winning case studies
Who is using JDF?
(based on a June sample survey of CIP4’s 136 vendors)
There are between 2425 and 2878 current JDF installations (95% confidence)
There are between 6233 and 6686 companies pending purchase of JDF systems. (95% confidence)
See for award winning case studies

13. CIPPI Case Studies Most innovative use of process automation technology
Druckerei Bauer KG, Vienna, Austria
Incorporated Hiflex MIS System, Muller Martini AG PrimaPlus AMRYS saddle-stitcher, MAN Roland presses equipped with the PECOM system
Reduced make-ready process for basic set-up from about 10 minutes to 3 minutes on Stichers
$622,741 improvement in Net Profit attributed to:
faster make-ready on presses
Improvement of the (now digital) internal communication processes
Increase in automation, transparency and flexibility
ROI of 220% in first year of operations

14. CIPPI Case Studies Most innovative use of process automation technology
Williamson Printing Corporation, Dallas, TX
Incorporated Esko-Graphics Scope workflow version 1.0, Kodak (Creo) UpFront Version 3.1, Heidelberg cutters
Eliminated manual imposition and automated stitcher setup
Prepress operator time to recreate an imposition has been reduced by 95% per job
Job latency has been reduced by one hour

15. CIPPI Case Studies Biggest improvement in efficiency and customer responsiveness
Kraft Druck und Verlag GmbH, Ettlingen, Germany
Incorporated Kodak (Creo) Prinergy Workflow System 2.3, Kodak (Creo) Synapse Link 2.0, MAN Roland presses running the PECOM system, Hiflex MIS System
An increase in productive hours of +9.6% , ROI of 446.5% within five years, IRR of 168%
Elimination of full-time scheduler position
The CSR can automatically generate invoices because materials are now automatically booked with 100% accuracy against the job
CSRs provide customers with more precise information, much faster, thus considerably improving customer services and responsiveness

16. CIPPI Case Studies Biggest improvement in efficiency and customer responsiveness
Lavigne Inc, Worcester, MA
Incorporated Printable Technologies PrintOne Customer Center (ASP web to print software) and HP/Indigo ProductionFlow Version 1.1
Automated ordering and prepress
92% reduction in customer processing costs
Added only two people while
Increasing the number of end users from 150 to over 42,000
Increased orders processed per month from 25 to over 700 orders per month

17. CIPPI Case Studies Best cost/benefit realization
Action Printing, Fond du Lac, WI
Incorporated Muller Martini Prima with AMRYS (Saddle Stitcher) and Kodak (Creo) UpFront Software
Reduced average setup time from 85 minutes to 24 minutes
Eliminated one of three stitcher lines while increasing work by 17%
Breakeven of 3.2 years

18. CIPPI Case Studies Best cost/benefit realization
Druckhaus Berlin-Mitte GmbH (DBM), Berlin, Germany
Products incorporated MAN Roland presses equipped with PECOM system including and Hiflex MIS System
Reduced job data entry from four iterations to one
Manual entry of job data in PECOM is no longer required
Morning production meeting reduced from 30 to 10 minutes, afternoon meeting cancelled — A saving of seven man-hours per day
20% increase in productive hours in two years
ROI of % within five years
IRR of 236%

19. CIPPI Case Studies Most innovative use of process automation technology
Druckerei Bauer KG, Vienna, Austria
Products incorporated
Hiflex MIS System
Muller Martini AG PrimaPlus AMRYS saddle-stitcher
MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG presses equipped with the PECOM system including four MAN Roland 700 presses (74x104; one 10-color, two five-color with varnishing unit, one 4-color.)

20. CIPPI Case Studies Druckerei Bauer KG
Old Workflow
The first data entry was done when the customer order was specified and estimated in the Hiflex MIS
The CSR then printed a job ticket that was forwarded.
Data entered again when job arrived at press (e.g., customer name, job name, order number, format, paper thickness, etc.)
Data entered again when the job arrived at the saddle stitcher (e.g., customer name, job name, order number, run length, deadlines, and product specifications)
Post-production, operators manually entered the produced quantity and the fact that the production run had finished!

21. Druckerei Bauer KG New Workflow

22. CIPPI Case Studies Druckerei Bauer KG
Results
Reduced make-ready process for basic set-up from about 10 minutes to 3 minutes on Stichers
$622,741 improvement in Net Profit attributed to:
faster make-ready on presses
Improvement of the (now digital) internal communication processes
Increase in automation, transparency and flexibility
ROI of 220% in first year of operations

23. CIPPI Case Studies Most innovative use of process automation technology
Williamson Printing Corporation, Dallas, TX
Products incorporated
Esko-Graphics Scope workflow version 1.0
Kodak (Creo) UpFront Version 3.1
Heidelberg cutters

24. CIPPI Case Studies Williamson Printing
Old Workflow
Production managers (PMs) draw an imposed layout plan for the press with paper & pencil
PMs wait as much as 15 minutes for imposition workstation
Imposition, done by hand, takes minutes
Cutters are setup manually which took minutes

25. CIPPI Case Studies Williamson Printing
New Workflow
Data entered by PMs into the UpFront system and the best imposition for that particular job is calculated
A JDF file is created that is exported to the Esko-Graphics Scope workflow.
The workflow, using that data, automatically generates an imposition layout and pages are entered into the page list, as that information is typically not available at the moment of the calculation of the imposition in Upfront.
Information about the imposition is also sent to the finishing machines and is used to automatically setup cutters,

26. CIPPI Case Studies Williamson Printing

27. CIPPI Case Studies Williamson Printing
Results
Prepress operator time to recreate an imposition has been reduced by 95% per job
The number of errors in prepress has been reduced by 100% (e.g., 0)
Job latency has been reduced by one hour

28. CIPPI Case Studies Biggest improvement in efficiency and customer responsiveness
Kraft Druck und Verlag GmbH, Ettlingen, Germany
Products incorporated
Kodak (Creo) Prinergy Workflow System 2.3
Kodak (Creo) Synapse Link 2.0
MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG presses running the PECOM system (including three MAN Roland 700 presses)
Hiflex MIS System

29. CIPPI Case Studies Kraft Druck
Old Workflow
Press department receives job schedule from the scheduler as a printout
Paper job tickets arrived in press department
Final planning & late changes were marked manually on the printout
Job data entered manually into the PECOM system (Error Prone/Inconsistent data)
Unavoidable modifications manually corrected in the PECOM system
After production, the press operator manually entered information about the produced quantity and job finished into the the Hiflex MIS.
Problems:
Multiple entry of job data was common
Risk of typing errors / inconsistent data
Communication of job information and status required several steps and several people (high administrative overhead)
5 % of the exposed plates were not entered into Production Data Collection, yet 96 % of the “lost” plates could be eventually accounted for

30. CIPPI Case Studies Kraft Druck
New Workflow
A single manual entry of job data into the Hiflex MIS
Hiflex uses the JDF interface to create customer details and printing instructions
The system automatically generates complete production sequence and sends data to subsequent Kodak (Creo) and MAN Roland systems
All machines events are reported back via JMF and flow into the Hiflex order book, the Hiflex Production Data Collection and the Hiflex Scheduling board

31. CIPPI Case Studies Kraft Druck
Results
An increase in productive hours (print run hours) of +9.6%
Each day, prepress operators save 24 minutes time in job creation
Elimination of full-time scheduler position
The CSR can automatically generate invoices because materials are now automatically booked with 100% accuracy against the job
CSRs provide customers with more precise information, much faster, thus considerably improving customer services and responsiveness
ROI of 446.5% within five years, IRR of 168%.

32. CIPPI Case Studies Biggest improvement in efficiency and customer responsiveness
Lavigne Inc, Worcester, MA
Products incorporated
Printable Technologies PrintOne Customer Center (ASP web to print software)
HP/Indigo ProductionFlow Version 1.1

33. CIPPI Case Studies Lavigne
Old Workflow
A ‘print on demand’ business that was basically a web site that ed job tickets
Internal workflow was very much similar to a conventional job
CSRs used conventional order entry, file acquision process
Pre-press conducted traditional imposition, layout, crop mark, etc. tasks a job by job basis

34. CIPPI Case Studies Lavigne
New Workflow
PDF – OPI Comments
ProductionFlow/DFE
Order
JDF
(JDF)
Press
Printable JT
(JDF)
Finishing/Shipping
Billing/Reporting

35. CIPPI Case Studies Lavigne
Results
92% reduction in customer processing costs
Added only two people while
Increasing the number of end users from 150 to over 42,000
Increased orders processed per month from 25 to over 700 orders per month

36. CIPPI Case Studies Best cost/benefit realization
Action Printing, Fond du Lac, WI
Products incorporated
Muller Martini Prima with AMRYS (Saddle Stitcher)
Kodak (Creo) UpFront Software

37. CIPPI Case Studies Action Printing
Old Workflow
Hardcopy setup instructions
Saddle stitching lines were made ready using wrenches, feeler gauges, and Allen wrenches
Machines commonly started up before all adjustments have been made properly

38. CIPPI Case Studies Action Printing
New Workflow
UpFront Layout Creation in Customer Service
Export CIP file to a file server
The Muller Saddle Stitcher Operator Finds the saved CIP instructions on the server and downloads these instructions to the machine
The AMRYS makeready sequence is followed and all machine adjustments are made in less then five minutes

39. CIPPI Case Studies Action Printing
Results
Prior to implementation, setup averaged a total of 85 minutes
After implementation, setup averaged 24 minutes
Eliminated one of three stitcher lines while increasing work by 17%
Breakeven of 3.2 years

40. CIPPI Case Studies Best cost/benefit realization
Druckhaus Berlin-Mitte GmbH (DBM), Berlin, Germany
Products incorporated
MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG press equipped with PECOM system including
MAN Roland 700 (two units, 74x104 cm)
MAN Roland 900 (one unit, 100x140 cm)
Hiflex MIS System

41. CIPPI Case Studies DBM Old Workflow
production data was processed four times :
The customer order was specified and estimated in the Hiflex MIS which also generated the job ticket
The job was re-keyed into an internally-developed planning tool and the production hours were entered manually
Using a manual planning board to visualize production, paper stripes where manually cut and labeled
The press operator had to manually key in the relevant job specifications (format, paper thickness etc.) from the job ticket

42. CIPPI Case Studies DBM New Workflow
Upon order entry relevant technical job data (e.g. time values for production, format, colors etc.) are automatically exported to the Hiflex Scheduling application
CSR enters further information about shipment or external work and customer approvals
Hiflex Scheduling, just before printing, sends job parameters to the PECOM system via JDF

43. CIPPI Case Studies DBM Results
Manual entry of job data in PECOM is no longer required
Morning production meeting reduced from 30 to 10 minutes, afternoon meeting cancelled — A saving of seven man-hours per day
20% increase in productive hours in two years
ROI of % within five years
IRR of 236%

44. MIS & Workflow System Usage
91%
Estimating
Billing Information
77%
Order Entry
Scheduling
Sales Information
73%
Paper and Product Inventory
Shop Floor Data Collection
50%
Delivery Status
36%
CRM
Maintenance schedules
Workflow analysis & job or load balancing
23%
DAM/Asset management & asset transfer
18%
Web-site/Ecommerce Front End 5%
In-line quality control data

45. MIS & Workflow System Desire 82% of respondents wanted to upgrade
11%
Estimating
Billing Information
17%
Order Entry
28%
Scheduling
Sales Information
22%
Paper and Product Inventory
Shop Floor Data Collection
44%
Delivery Status
CRM
33%
Maintenance schedules
50%
Workflow analysis & job or load balancing
DAM/Asset management & asset transfer
Web-site/Ecommerce Front End
In-line quality control data

46. Why Automate? 92% said MIS & workflow systems enhance efficiency, and
86% said MIS & workflow systems improve the level of customer service that they can provide to customers, and
83% MIS & workflow systems improve turn around times and the speed of production, but
57% said employees will work around the system if it adds requirements to their workload — Automation is essential to success!

47. What Implementing Printers are looking for out of JDF?
75%
Streamline information between systems/applications
Smoother flow of production
Reduce human error in data entry
Reduce labor
Improve responsiveness to customer requirements
69%
Improve command and control of all operations
Reduce waste, including process waste
63%
Increase capacity without increasing capital footprint
56%
Ability to link customers with production process
44%
Ability to link suppliers to business

48. What Does JDF Do?
One common language that supports the lifecycle of a print job (e.g., “the job ticket standard”)
A flexible method for configuration of plant automation, workflows, and job production
Common controller language — for command and control of all production devices on the plant floor
Device Capabilities — Automating the handshake between devices (new in JDF 1.2)

49. Job Ticket Lifecycle

50. Data Sources Customer files and meta data
JDF-enabled preflight software
Customers entry via your company’s website or via an e-commerce partner
Defaults and presets on your own equipment
Job “profiles” and defaults set in your “MIS systems”
Direct entry
This does not mean that data must be keyed. In fact, process automation via JDF should mean less work and the elimination of redundant data entry … the idea is to capture information about a job once and carry it through its lifecycle. Furthermore, not everything must be key: job defaults and systems settings may provide much of the data required of a completed JDF job ticket.

51. JDF in Business Operations (JDF incorporates the following PrintTalk objects)
Request for Quote
Quote
Purchase Order
Order Confirmation
Cancellation
Refusal
Order Status Request
Order Status Response
Proof Approval Request
Proof Approval Response
Invoice
JDF isn’t just about print production, it includes both the business of publishing and printing as well as production. For instance, all of the PrintTalk transactions for specifying and buying printing are included in JDF.

52. JDF Building Blocks
Each job is broken down in to fundamental processes an their input and output requirements. The output of one process is the input to the next process and are reference to as “resources.” Resources can be both physical materials such as ink and paper, as well as virtual inputs such as color information or other job parameters. JDF 1.1 includes over 80 process and over 160 resources.

54. Functions of the “MIS System”
Decompose JDF document instances and store information into a database or data store
Compose JDF from its database or data store
Read and validate JDF
Write and validate JDF
Be aware of input and parameter requirements of production devices on the plant floor
Understand, read and write validated JMF
The “MIS” system, as defined by JDF, in practice may be a workflow or production management system. These systems must be able to read, write and validate JDF and JMF. They should be able to manage user and vendor extensions to JDF. Even though a JDF job ticket may be kept as a text file, odds are the information will roll in and out of multiple systems that keep the JDF information in an underlying database; hence, testing the input and output data via “validation” is one the benefits of JDF for equipment buying and system debugging.

55. What Can JMF Do?
JMF controller may “register” w/ JDF-enabled MIS system
The JMF controller may report information about the devices it supports to the JDF MIS system
The JMF controller may report events, status, and results (or responses) to the JDF MIS system – including the phase a job is in, counts, employees working the device, waste, and so on
One JMF controller may communicate to another
JDF MIS system may manage the controller/device’s job queue
JMF, or the Job Messaging Format, is the generic device “command and control” language within JDF.

56. This is an example of one vendors approach to dealing with binding and finishing.
A JMF Illustration

57. Interoperability Conformance Specifications
Building on JDF
JDF
Product A
Product B
Interoperability Conformance Specifications

58. Interoperability Conformance Specification (ICS) Documents
2005:
Base Interoperability Conformance Specification ICS
MIS ICS
MIS to Prepress ICS
MIS to Conventional Printing - Sheet Fed ICS
Prepress to Conventional Printing - Sheet Fed ICS
Integrated Digital Printing ICS
Binding ICS
Layout Creator to Imposition (First ICS with no MIS Required)

59. Example ICS Stack Integrated Digital Printing ICS MIS to Prepress ICS
MIS to Conventional – Sheet Fed ICS
Binding ICS
MIS ICS
Base ICS
[JDF1.3]

60. ICS Concepts JDF Specification is large, covers many interfaces
Interoperability Conformance Specification (ICS)
Defines a single interface in the workflow
example: between an MIS and a Prepress Application
example: between a Digital Printing Controller and a Digital Printing Device
Defines the conformance requirements for:
Manager side
Worker side
What a Manager MUST send to its Worker
What a Manager MUST accept from its Worker
What a Worker MUST accept from its Manager
What a Worker MUST return to its Manager
Probably one slide per Workitem is reasonable.
Do not reiterate the whole work item, only status and interactions that need resolution
Clear state any potential for missing deadlines

61. Where to Start? Make someone responsible
Pick a path (Customer or market where the impact will be greatest)
Get your feet wet and prove out the ROI
Document your current environment
Discuss your vendors upgrade path
Buy smart and make JDF part of your SOP and purchasing policy

62. Dealer Opportunity Become the customer’s automation resource
Bring the solution to your customer, don’t wait for them to ask for one passively
Get in the middle, be the solutions broker!
Get smart on JDF — enough to understand what needs to be exchanged between two+ vendors
Staff Expertise vs. Subcontractors
Training
References

63. JDF Expert Certificate Seminars
Program Content
XML
Structures
Intents
Processes
Devices
Schema
Preflighting
Prepress
Printing
Postpress

64. Info, Registration and Program Details

65. Dealer Opportunity Manage the project Set objectives
Organize participants
Set schedule and Milestones
Coordinate communications
Test and evaluate
Train users

66. Dealer Opportunity

67. What do you need to do? Evaluate your current line-up
Which manufacturers and products are JDF-enabled?
What’s on the market (JDF Marketplace)?
Are there holes to be filled?
Develop a portfolio of solutions
Identify automation opportunities
Work with a lead customer
Package the solution
Propagate

68. The Future of JDF JDF 1.3 Additional ICS’s Publishing to Prepress
Packaging
Advertising
Authentication
Web production
Additional ICS’s
Publishing to Prepress
Imposition
Prepress Manger to Prepress
Stripping
Format Conversion
Intent to Imposition

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