Automated Workflow

"If your MIS does not provide you information via JDF, there are still parts of the graphics workflow that can benefit from JDF. There are a number of use cases," Delagrange adds. "The best example is ink settings that are passed from the workflow to the press. As a company, we have also implemented imposition, barcode, and RIP parameters, among others. You can certainly take it step by step—partial CIM with partial use cases. JDF is certainly helpful to pass along the job creation parameters as the first step of CIM, but it can also be beneficial to the pure execution of a job."