CIP3 Comes Home

By DRUPA 1995, the CIP3 movement took official form. Its objective: Facilitate data exchange from prepress to finishing. In short, bring about the digital linkage of all production processes over the complete printing process. The essential requirement for this digitization was the creation of the Print Production Format (PPF), a standard machine language—introduced at DRUPA 1995—that defines certain data, from the design to the dispatch of a printed product.