CIP4 Standard--Digital Integration

In a telephone conference call spanning three continents, the CIP3 consortium and the four companies that initiated development work on the Job Definition Format (JDF)—Adobe, Agfa, Heidelberg and MAN Roland—reached a final agreement on the details of handing over all rights to JDF to CIP3.

The result: CIP4. The CIP3 consortium changed its name, officially, to the International Cooperation for Integration of Processes in Prepress, Press and Postpress, or CIP4. Immediately, work began among the collective technology members to start negotiations with other standards organizations with the expertise to work on extending JDF into areas such as digital printing and e-commerce.