Transcript Seven Minutes with a JDF Vendor

Esko-Graphics and JDF
Jan De Roeck
Marketing Director Packaging Software
Esko-Graphics
Printing – the key production process
for our customers
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Commercial Printing
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Packaging
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Esko-Graphics Workflow Products
Commercial Print
• FlowDrive
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Based on Harlequin RIP
Esko-Graphics Technology components added
• FastLane Next Generation
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Uses Adobe codev PostScript kernel for Ps and PDF interpretation
Esko-Graphics Technology components added
Packaging
• FastLane for Packaging
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Common core technology basis
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Commercial Print:
focus on graphics
graphic
design
prepress
proofing
DESIGN
platemaking
PREPRODUCTION
printing
PRODUCTION
Integrated solutions: Hardware, Software and Services
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Packaging:
focus on graphics and structure
graphic
design
prepress
proofing
DESIGN
samplemaking
structural
design
CAD/CAM
platemaking
PREPRODUCTION
die- & toolmaking
printing
PRODUCTION
diecutting/
stripping
Integrated solutions: Hardware, Software and Services
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FastLane and JDF
• Esko-Graphics own developments
• JDF Consumer
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Administrative information
Production information
Imposition information
Job Status information
• JDF Producer
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Job Status info towards 3rd party MIS Vendors
Ink settings (CIP3 – InkPlanner)
Separation info (FastImpose!)
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MIS -> FastLane
• When to exchange?
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MIS pushes a new or updated job to prepress
Prepress remains in control: no automatic update
Prepress reports back to MIS: proofs are made, plates are made, imposition
changed,…
MIS
JDF
JDF
graphic
design
prepress
JDF
platemaking
printing
PRE-
DESIGN
proofing
JDF
PRODUCTION
PRODUCTION
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JDF
MIS -> FastLane
Order Information
• Ordernumber and its parts
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Cover, Body, Insert,...
• Customer information
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Contact coordinates
Address
E-mail
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MIS -> FastLane
Product Information
• Number of pages
• Trim size
• Binding info (prefect bound, saddle stitch,…)
Information about Plates
• Inks, lineatures and dotshape
• Number of plates
• Versions (language variants)
• Deadlines
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MIS -> FastLane
Information about Proofs
• What proofs to make
• Where, how and when to send
• When to receive from customer
Information about the Artwork
• When to receive
• How will it be sent
• Who will send
• Pagelist information
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MIS -> FastLane
Information about the Imposition
• High Level description of the imposition scheme
generated by production planning or estimating
software.
• Proposal by Esko-Graphics for JDF 1.2:
LayoutObject
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FastLane -> MIS
• Job Status information
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Job status on sheets, proofs, plates
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FastLane -> MIS/Press
• Color settings for the Printing Press (CIP3)
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InkPlanner
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FastLane -> 3rd party Rips
• Sheet Layout
• LayoutPreparationParams
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JDF Roadmap
• Interoperability tests
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We participate in all Interoperability tests with Prototype software
Challenge is to build interoperability between heterogenous systems
Last Interoperability meeting in San Jose (CA):
Esko-Graphics BackStage consumes JDF imposition from Preps (Creo)
Further cooperation initiatives ongoing (MIS, Online collaboration, ...), we will show
more real life use-cases at the upcoming Interoperability Meetings.
• Conclusion
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Esko-Graphics is Full Member of the CIP4 organization and plays an active role in the
JDF developments for pre-production workflows.
Key development areas:
- PDF as the native data container
- JDF as the electronic job-bag
JDF links to 3rd party MIS systems have high priority
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Seven Minutes with a JDF Vendor
• Request for feedback
Any comments, suggestions or questions
related to this presentation, this session or
this event, please refer to the coordinates
below.
• Speaker Coordinates
Jan De Roeck
Marketing Director Packaging Software
Esko-Graphics
Tel: +32 9 216 93 24
Fax.: +32 9 216 94 63
Visit us at: www.esko-graphics.com
E-mail: [email protected]
• Seybold
Seybold Seminars
303 Vintage Park Drive
Foster City, CA 94404
Phone: 650-578-6900
Hans Hartman [email protected]
Craig Cline [email protected]
• Web resources
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Esko-Graphics www.Esko-Graphics.com
DeskPack: www.Deskpack.com
Seybold Publications
http://www.seyboldreports.com/
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