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JDF certification
•Mark Bohan
GATF
Overview
• CIP4 / JDF background– What it is– Why use it?
• JDF certification– Why?– What does it mean?
• Limitations
– Procedure– Timescales
Islands of automation
June 11, 2003June 11, 2003
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JDF connectivity
CIM and CIP4
CIP4 status, JDF 1.2
• CIP4 developing the JDF specifications (1.2)• Allow to describe the product
– Supports JDF– JDF enabled– JDF capable
• Not– JDF certified– JDF conforming
• Why: it infers CIP4 have reviewed / endorsed the product
ICS – Why?
JDFVendor A Vendor B
Why certification?
• Why not self certified
– Anyone could say certified
– Weaken the strength and integrity of CIP4
• Provides confidence to the user
– Knowledge the systems can integrate
– Don’t want ‘islands of automation’
• Ensure connectivity and integration
– Key objective of JDF
Why GATF?
•Independent
•Extensive experience in graphic arts
–Since 1924
•Have large testing facility–Expanding JDF enabled products
•Planning
•Workflow
•MIS
•Press
•Bindery
ICS
•Provide basis for conformance
•Draft format at present
–Confirmed shortly
•They can include several levels
–Base conformance
–Built upon
•MIS base conformance–Level 1
–Level 2
–Level 3
ICS – a number of documents
BASE
MIS
Non MIS
PrepressConventional
PrintingDigital
PrintingFinishing
ICS – what they discuss
•Structure, rules and regulations
•Need to know basis
•Testing needs to ensure these are followed
Testing procedure
• Dependent on product that is tested
– ICS
– Functionality
• Is the product send / receive or both
• Additional functionality testing
– Syntax
– Attributes
– etc
Quick benchmark
•Test a sample files
–Fast, quick, cheap
•Problems
–Everyone would check
against the basic files
–Would not detect
interoperability
–Pseudo certification
•e.g. …..
Complete evaluation
•Test every possible specification with ICS and every other system
–Check everything approach
•Problems
–Development time
–Testing time
–Cost
–NO ONE WOULD TRY TO BE
JDF CERTIFIED
The balancing act
Commercial considerations
Completeevaluation
Testing procedure
•GATF to be a central facility
•Have extensive equipment
–Throughout the full workflow
•Continually expanding and
upgrading
–Access to others
•Will develop / use testing code
–Different possibilities
Summary
• JDF certification will occur
• Practical balance
• Tests will evolve with time
– With updates to the JDF specification
Thank you for your attention
• Graphic Arts Technical Foundation
– 412-741-6860
– www.gain.org
• CIP4
– www.cip4.org
JDF – Goals (www.cip4.org)
• JDF is designed to streamline information exchange between different applications and systems.
• JDF is intended to enable the entire industry, including media, design, graphic arts, on demand and e-commerce companies to implement and work with individual workflow solutions.
• JDF will allow integration of heterogeneous products from diverse vendors to seamless workflow solutions.