JDF BASICS -- It's Just the Ticket

"JDF will work in one case—if you buy all of your products from a single vendor," he continues. "But the minute you add a piece of somebody else's equipment into the mix, you're going to have a high likelihood of the system not working seamlessly."

The current 500+ page document should be version 5.0, Ray asserts. "These type of tools need to start at the lowest common denominator. Step one should be a simple solution that standardizes a way to get job data into the system," he notes.