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Is JDF what our business needs to manage its workflow/production‏?

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Tue, 01/03/2012 - 08:22
samer
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Dear Sir/Meme,

I was looking for workflow solutions for our business (our business is 
considered as prepress) what we do is (meet clients - study their RFQ - quote 
- sign a contract - our team do the creative work using Adobe CS's Apps - 
export to a final PDF - out-source the printing).

If we outsource the printing? how is JDF feasible for us to track, audit and 
increase efficiency of our team.

Best Regards,
Samer

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Tue, 01/03/2012 - 13:14
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stefan
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PrintTalk

Hi Samer,

for cross company communication PrintTalk would be te best way to achieve this. PrintTalk is an extension of JDF and also is designed by CIP4 (http://www.cip4.org/global/v3/index.php?content=/documents/printtalk/intro.php).

But unfortunately I don't know any printing house which provides such a interface. If you find one please let me know.

Best Regards,
Stefan

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Wed, 01/04/2012 - 08:27
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Albert
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Joined: 06/24/2011
PrintTalk

PrintTalk is much more than just JDF; It also contains information for quoting, ordering and financial info, next to the JDF.

This makes it perfect for MIS to communicate between printing partners and customer systems.

However, there are currently not much MIS which support it. We are currently looking into it to incorperate it into our MIS and try to make it more useable. We are also trying to convince all the MIS suppliers in the Netherlands that PrintTalk is the way to go, so several MIS applications can exchange data between one and another.

This creates the possibility to do what you where asking for :)

 

Albert

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Agents create and modify JDF information; Controllers route it to the appropriate Devices. The minimum requirement of a Controller is that it can initiate Processes on at least one Device, or at least one other Slave Controller that will then initiate Processes on a Device. In other words, a Controller is not a Controller if it has nothing to control. In some cases, a pyramid-like hierarchy of Controllers can be built, with Controllers at the top of the pyramid controlling a series of lower-level Controllers at the bottom. The lowest-level Controllers in the pyramid, however, MUST have Device capability. Therefore, Controllers MUST be able to work in collaboration with other Controllers. In order to communicate with one another, and to communicate with Devices, Controllers MUST support the JDF file-exchange protocol and MAY support JMF. Controllers can also determine Process planning and scheduling data, such as Process times and planned production amounts. (Source: JDF Spec. 1.4a)