GRAPH EXPO and CONVERTING EXPO 2004 -- Star Attraction

"JDF was the vendors' buzz technology at Drupa and it will be the vendors' buzz technology at Graph Expo," he says. "We think the sheetfed developments are more important in terms of having an immediate and mid-term impact for the mid-sized sheetfed commercial printer.

"The average printer is not going to go out and implement JDF tomorrow afternoon. But he may need a new sheetfed press, which he hasn't bought in several years. And, if he doesn't do that, he'd better know what new press his neighbor is going to buy."