Job Definition Format (JDF)
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Overview
Key benefits
- Helps designers and printers collaborate with greater efficiency and predictability using an open workflow standard
- Speeds print production workflows with an intelligent "job jacket" that directs and connects each step in the workflow
- Eliminates time-consuming manual and redundant tasks
- Reduces errors, resulting in more predictable, higher quality output
- Increases productivity and speeds job turnaround — enabling printers to increase capacity
- Adds value by integrating print production with enterprise business operations
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Partnerships: Bringing JDF to market
CIP4
The independent international consortium CIP4 (Cooperation for the Integration of Processes in Prepress, Press and Postpress) has played a significant role in the development of the JDF specification. CIP4 is committed to establishing standards for the integration of computer-based production processes and has been a key enabler in the broad adoption of JDF. To promote JDF and other industry standards, CIP4 hosts periodic InterOps, which provide vendors with an opportunity to verify that new products comply with standards and communicate successfully with other JDF-enabled products.
The CIP4 website contains a wealth of information about JDF, including a JDF Developers Forum, an archive of JDF Bulletin Newsletters, a downloadable PDF file of the latest JDF specification, and the latest release of the JDF open source code. For developers of JDF-based solutions, CIP4 provides a CheckJDF tool, which evaluates and verifies a file for JDF compliance.
CIP4 and the CIP4 logo are registered trademarks of the CIP4 organization.
JDF partners
Adobe is working with OEM partners and industry associations to develop JDF-enabled systems that will streamline and integrate print production workflows. These partners include Agfa, AlphaGraphics, Creo, Dainippon Screen, Datalogics, Digital Infrastructures, Dupont Color Proofing, EFI, Epson, EskoArtwork, Fujifilm Electronic Imaging, Heidelberg, Hewlett-Packard, IBM Printing Systems, Kodak, NexPress Solutions, Oce, Peerless, Ricoh, RIPit, Rochester Software Associations (RSA), SOFHA, Xante, Xeikon, and Xerox.
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