CIP4 Announces Version 1.3 of JDF Now Available

"JDF now models many types of packaging processes, a huge area of the printing industry," said Dr. Rainer Prosi of Heidelberg and CIP4's Technical Officer. "While it can now be said that JDF fully supports web offset and newspaper production, in the case of packaging, we've only introduced some basic functionality. We focused first on what is necessary to support board and folding carton converting and future editions of JDF will expand on this foundation to support other areas of packaging, such as flexible packaging."