Ten Years After: CIP4 and the Creation of JDF

Today the JDF Specification (version 1.4a) is nearly 1,100 pages long, and facilitates web printing, digital printing, packaging, and much, much more. At present CIP4 has about 300 member companies, from which more than 1600 folks are participants. There are approximately 25 technical and managerial working groups that continually work on the further development of JDF and promote process automation in the printing industry. Taking into account development time, education programs, sales and marketing, and integration and testing, the industry-wide investment in JDF easily exceeds a billion dollars.