JDF BASICS -- It's Just the Ticket

To throw in one final acronym, JDF is said to have been designed "with the intention of providing the highest possible level of compatibility" with the PPF (Print Production Format). PPF started the industry down the road to computer-integrated manufacturing by enabling data captured in prepress to be utilized in the pressroom and bindery. The primary implementations have been using data captured by the RIP to preset ink keys on-press and passing job layouts from imposition software to the bindery for automatic setup of cutters and folders.