CIP4 Announces 2007 International Award Program Winners

Reflecting on PDC Tangen’s approach to implementing JDF-enabled process automation, CIPPI Award Judge John Leininger of Clemson University said, “It is like a healthy life style; it is a change in the way you do things forever, not a quick fix. They get the point.”

Second place in the “Best cost/benefit” category went to Yamazen Communications (Japan). Yamazen provides conventional printing services as well development of custom web portals. It has 86 employees and revenues of ¥1.2 billion (about ≠7.28 million or $10.12 million US). Yamazen set up an innovative web-to-print site in 2000. In order to produce a broad range of printed materials, they have implemented Heidelberg JDF-oriented products for prepress and press, and then installed a MIS system from Tosbac Systems to complete their automatic production workflow. Yamazen was able to reduce make ready times and waste on press in prepress, eliminate 160 minutes per day in labor for job tracking and delivery date management, and reduce prepress processing time per job by 10 minutes. Their investment has a net present value of ≠2,300,290 and an ROI of 1584.16%.