One on One — Ulrik Nygaard on Finishing

How closely integrated is finishing with pressroom and prepress now. Is JDF workflow a reality?

It is, but it is moving very slowly into the finishing department. There is a lot of talk about it, and a lot of companies that offer it, (us included) but I think there are a lot fewer printers that actually use it. Part of the problem is a legacy issue. There is a tremendous amount of equipment out there in the marketplace that doesn’t have that compatibility. So the printer can’t just say, “As of next month we want to do total JDF workflow integration,” because the equipment can’t do it. And he can’t just say, “Well then, I’m going to change the whole fleet of equipment out.” It’s going to be a gradual process in the finishing department and in the whole printing company.