CIP3 Comes Home

The JDF specification will be published by the four companies and made widely available to all interested OEMs, third parties and end users via www.job-definition-format.org.

With these and other initiatives that will take center stage at DRUPA 2000, CIP3 has become much more than a concept. It is a consortium in action, a cooperation of technology pioneers devoted to advancing automation in the printing process. CIP3, too, is an application. It is the Print Production Format, which, through technologies from Adobe, Agfa and other software engineers, is linking the front-end functionality and demands of commercial printing to their pressroom and bindery operations. One by one, commercial printers are adopting the PPF as a standard workflow.