printCafe vs. PrintTalk--Waging a PrintWar?

However, you can add that mechanism by wrapping JDF in cXML. cXML is a communications infrastructure for e-commerce. It's intended to support goods that are bought and sold on the Internet. printCafe's PCX, which is based on XML.1, also relies on JDF, cXML, as well as EDI standards.

Open Standards
From PrintTalk's inception, its data interchange has been free and open to anyone who is interested. "PrintTalk is about the free exchange of information," says Mekis. "From day one, it was important for us that it be based on open standards. We were not going to develop something in a closet that you had to have a license to touch."