JDF & CIM -- Issues Are Not so CIMple

"Still, it is true that nearly every printer using JDF that I have talked to includes reduced labor cost among the top benefits they've realized. It's not 'lights out' manufacturing, but printers seem to be putting a priority on reducing the cost of labor," Harvey says.

The answer to how job data is initially captured ties in with Romano's point about customer-supplied files. There has been similar debate about the merits of having customers provide PDF versus native application files.