DATA INTEGRATION -- Tooling Up for CIM

"This means all of our Prinect products (prepress, press, postpress) will be engineered to implement the JDF architecture as a standard feature," Mauro says.

While JDF development continues, a separate but related integration effort is being pursued by PrintTalk (www.printtalk.org). PrintTalk is both the name of the organization and its solution for interoperability between printing management and e-commerce systems. The list of management system vendors currently on its member roll includes Graphic Arts IT, Heidelberg USA, Pace Systems Group, Parsec Corp., Printers Software, Prism-USA, Profit Control Systems, Streamline Solutions and TripleArc Ltd.