COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING -- Systems that Serve a Greater Good

How the system handles impositioning is a good example, the product manager says. An imposition plan can be brought into the system via JDF import and then anyone with client software can assign pages to the plan, he explains.

Avoiding an Overload

As Heidelberg extends its implementation of JDF to the pressroom and on through finishing operations, Ryan says he can see advantages to having a separate master JDF server connected to every area of a plant. "You probably don't want all areas of production hitting into your prepress server," he notes.