EDITOR'S notebook

Highly efficient workflows, often with an emphasis placed on the JDF initiative, will also be a major theme pervading various exhibits. Despite some resistance among commercial printers to embrace the standard, industry suppliers are committed to making their new equipment offerings JDF-compatible, and will showcase the throughput gains that are possible. In the press and postpress arenas, the higher productivity achievable by installing new equipment (read "Getting Equipped to Compete" on page 80) that can often replace several older machines will be selling points constantly brought up on the show floor.