Job Ticketing in the Electronic Age

JDF Collaboration
Adobe, Agfa, Heidelberg and MAN Roland recently collaborated to create the JDF standard.

"The printing industry will see a move toward standardizing the workflow process and communication to their job management systems," Meinhardt says. "One of the main objectives in the development of our system, Litho Traxx, is the improvement of the communication process from initial customer contact through estimating, order processing, scheduling, printing, finishing, shipping and invoicing. The core flexibility allows users to define and control the processes of print production."