The Missing Link
Additionally, an integrated JDF workflow allows changes to any job specification to be accommodated and updated in real time, which leads to higher efficiencies and less waste.
The JDF advantage
In packaging applications, JDF-enabled workflows can translate to better customer service, faster time to market, better management of collaborative workflows, and greater facility in the automated handling of labor-intensive functions like trapping, color mapping, step-and-repeat, and complex files containing large amounts of graphical and structural data. For example, JDF “knows” that a particular job is received as a PDF. It also knows that this PDF has to be preflighted, processed, printed, packaged, and delivered to the print buyer. Since job information is input just once, the same specs will be used throughout the workflow, greatly reducing the potential for human error. Jobs can flow accurately throughout the process to all JDF- enabled equipment with little human interaction.
