Ten Years After: CIP4 and the Creation of JDF

In 2007, NGP was folded into CIP4. "Some former NGP marketing and education programs have become the foundation of current CIP4 programs," said Mark Wilton of Wilton & Partners Consulting, former NGP Director and CIP4 Membership Officer. "The Production Automation News has been produced at drupa, Ipex, Print and GRAPH EXPO, and the old NGP integration matrix has become the current JDF Integration Matrix. The Matrix now documents over 600 integrations between products available in the market, and has become a popular reference for printers around the world."