E-Commerce Firms, CMS Manufacturers, NPES Push JDF Standard

NPES also administers the International Color Consortium (ICC), an organization devoted to developing a specification to enable different computer platforms and devices to translate color information into a standard color interchange.

"Right now," says Hallberg, "the industry is a bit like the larger computer industry was in the 1970s, when there were a number of different computer languages, none of which could talk to each other. But in the next few years, the systems we'll all use for e-commerce will be developed, and we want them to be open systems."