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CIP4's JDF 1.2, the most recent iteration of the only interoperable information standard that reaches across the prepress, printing, and finishing industry,' is almost ready. CIP4 members are working apace to get JDF 1.2 ready for publication in spring 2004, while vendors of presses, platemakers, folders, computers, and all types of software are equally busy developing new products to be JDF 1.2- compliant in time for DRUPA. With JDF, users can control a print job from inception through completion, with a particularized description of the creative, prepress, press, post-press, and delivery processes; bridge communications breakdowns between production and management information systems (MISes) so that instant job- and device-tracking are possible, along with granular pre- and post-calculation costing; integrate the customers view of product and manufacturing process by defining a processing-neutral product view and process-neutral production view of a job; define and track any user-defined workflow without limits on supported workflow models; and to do all such tasks 'under nearly any precondition.' JDF 1.2 adds more specifications for describing digital file delivery between sites and adds extensions to specifications of Web printing and finishing.
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