DATA INTEGRATION -- Tooling Up for CIM

According to Tim Daisy, Printcafe's CIM product manager, while plug-and-play connectivity is the end point that the JDF effort is striving to attain, the current limitations require that print management system developers work with specific production system vendors to enable seamless integration. "Even though it's an open standard and moving toward plug-and-play implementation, there still is specific development work that needs to happen between vendors," he says.