drupa 04 Report Binding & Finishing — Building Better Binderi

Drupa 2000 was touted as the digital Drupa; Drupa 2004 was called the JDF Drupa. Both of these references correctly indicated important trends in the printing industry. One should not conclude, however, that digital and JDF indicate a focus only on the prepress and press control areas.

In fact, Drupa 2000 foresaw digital control throughout the printing plant, and Drupa 2004 demonstrated that JDF interfaces have application well beyond prepress and setting ink keys. At Drupa 2004, we saw the first steps toward the realization that the printing operation of the future can be a unified production facility, with centralized control and automation throughout.