Comments on: An Introduction to JDF http://thedigitalnirvana.com/2010/02/an-introduction-to-jdf/ Transpromo, Short-Run Book Publishing, Inkjet and other Printing Industry Issues Mon, 21 May 2012 14:35:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark W. Ford http://thedigitalnirvana.com/2010/02/an-introduction-to-jdf/comment-page-1/#comment-3240 Mark W. Ford Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:43:10 +0000 http://thedigitalnirvana.com/?p=1096#comment-3240 As Eddy points out, there are some real world JDF applications available today at no extra cost. Since 2005 EFI has made the stand-alone Fiery JDF Connector available to enable Fiery controllers to participate fully in JDF workflows. In addition to supporting any JDF process tickets intended for digital workflows (IDP ICS tickets from MIS, web-to-print, prepress systems, etc.), the Fiery JDF Connector also supports the product intent JDF tickets Eddy mentions above. Just configure Acrobat JDF submission manager to send a MIME to the Fiery controller's JMF URL. Starting the second half of 2010, all new Fiery controller models will ship standard with JDF support. Based on market demand, EFI also expects to make updates to already-shipping Fiery models available so that by the end of 2010 we expect there will be over a quarter million Fiery controllers in use with a JDF interface available at no extra cost. We are excited to see so many people starting to take advantage of JDF integration to increase productivity today! As Eddy points out, there are some real world JDF applications available today at no extra cost. Since 2005 EFI has made the stand-alone Fiery JDF Connector available to enable Fiery controllers to participate fully in JDF workflows.
In addition to supporting any JDF process tickets intended for digital workflows (IDP ICS tickets from MIS, web-to-print, prepress systems, etc.), the Fiery JDF Connector also supports the product intent JDF tickets Eddy mentions above. Just configure Acrobat JDF submission manager to send a MIME to the Fiery controller’s JMF URL.
Starting the second half of 2010, all new Fiery controller models will ship standard with JDF support. Based on market demand, EFI also expects to make updates to already-shipping Fiery models available so that by the end of 2010 we expect there will be over a quarter million Fiery controllers in use with a JDF interface available at no extra cost.
We are excited to see so many people starting to take advantage of JDF integration to increase productivity today!

]]> By: Eddy Hagen http://thedigitalnirvana.com/2010/02/an-introduction-to-jdf/comment-page-1/#comment-3070 Eddy Hagen Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:56:54 +0000 http://thedigitalnirvana.com/?p=1096#comment-3070 What everybody seems to forget when talking about JDF is that there is a real world application out there that won't cost you anything extra and that will provide a great ROI from day one. In Adobe Acrobat Pro there is the JDF Job Defitions Editor (Advanced > Print Production > JDF Job Defitions). This enables you to write a JDF job ticket for any job (and btw export it to nice html so you can read it yourself). In that job ticket you can specify run length, number of pages, finishing, paper type, contact information, ... everything you need for a job. You can even base the job ticket on an existing PDF (so that the format, number of pages is correct), or, a bit the other way around: check the PDF based upon a job ticket: does it have the right format, right number of pages? You can also 'wrap' this jdf with the pdf(s) into one nice file to submit it to a printer. And if you use the Acrobat preflight, you can also perform that. This Acrobat JDF Job Definitions Editor is something that *every* CSR, sales rep, designer, marketing guy, ... should know, should use. It will avoid a lot of mistakes, confusion about job specifations. It will give an immediate ROI. Here you can view a video on this topic: http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-create-jdf-job-definitions-acrobat-indesign-3906/ Eddy Hagen CIP4 certified JDF Expert VIGC What everybody seems to forget when talking about JDF is that there is a real world application out there that won’t cost you anything extra and that will provide a great ROI from day one.

In Adobe Acrobat Pro there is the JDF Job Defitions Editor (Advanced > Print Production > JDF Job Defitions). This enables you to write a JDF job ticket for any job (and btw export it to nice html so you can read it yourself).

In that job ticket you can specify run length, number of pages, finishing, paper type, contact information, … everything you need for a job. You can even base the job ticket on an existing PDF (so that the format, number of pages is correct), or, a bit the other way around: check the PDF based upon a job ticket: does it have the right format, right number of pages?

You can also ‘wrap’ this jdf with the pdf(s) into one nice file to submit it to a printer. And if you use the Acrobat preflight, you can also perform that.

This Acrobat JDF Job Definitions Editor is something that *every* CSR, sales rep, designer, marketing guy, … should know, should use. It will avoid a lot of mistakes, confusion about job specifations. It will give an immediate ROI.

Here you can view a video on this topic: http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-create-jdf-job-definitions-acrobat-indesign-3906/

Eddy Hagen
CIP4 certified JDF Expert
VIGC

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