DRUPA 2000--CIP3 Developments

The three companies—CreoScitex, Komori and MAN Roland—are currently listed as members of both CIP3 and printCafe and, therefore, might help minimize the potential divergence of JDF and PCX.

The administration and some technical consulting work for CIP3 is being provided by the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD) out of Darmstadt, Germany. The home page (www.cip3.org), for example, is maintained by IGD. Mark Schwarz, IGD consultant, said that they were pleased to have identified at least 25 products at DRUPA 2000 that were advertised to be CIP3 PPF compatible.