JDF - Recipe for Soup ... and a Sandwich

PDF workflows let designers use any content creation software to make their projects and send to a printer in PDF, knowing the files will print accurately, Plettinck added.

"The hope is that everyone will be able to communicate and transmit details of a print job through digital workflows from creation to completion," Ranasinha says. "With JDF, everyone will be able to use the same standard set of descriptions, implementing a process that is totally independent of application, system, platform, even language."