DRUPA 2000--CIP3 Developments

The consortium wants feedback from the international print and vendor community to these draft specifications. They hope to have a spec. 1.0 prepared and announced at Seybold San Francisco in August. This will then be submitted to an international standards body for the approvals process.

Shortly before DRUPA, printCafe announced its PCX specification. This interface details how to build XML and other Internet-based data streams to exchange information through printCafe's customer-branded Websites. Bill Guttman, chairman and CEO of printCafe, depicted the PCX interface by a series of interconnected circles, as displayed in the diagram above.