1. “JDF 1.3 Update” Today’s Instructor: Welcome Dr. Rainer Prosi
CTO, CIP4
Senior Workflow Architect

2. Today’s Discussion JDF 1.3 Time Line MIS Related Upgrades Packaging
Web / Newspaper
Digital Printing
Prepress
Layout Partitioning
Identical Elements and Versioning
JMF
Upcoming JDF 1.4

3. JDF 1.2 - 821 Pages JDF 1.3 - 910 Pages JDF 1.3 Status
XML Schema for 1.3: Internally available within CIP4
Java API: alpha release available within CIP4
JDFEditor: alpha release available within CIP4
C++ API: alpha release available within CIP4

4. MIS-related Upgrades New JDF/@Status=Interrupted
Difference between a job that has been stopped due to equipment failure (Status=“Stopped”)
Lifted from a device due to a high priority job (Status=“Interrupted”)
Change Order Management / JDF Synchronization
New JMF Messages
UpdateJDF: modify resource links or create new resources in a remote – generally spawned – JDF node
ModifyNode: change attributes within distributed JDF tickets

5. Consumable Identification
MIS-related Upgrades
Consumable Identification
<Lot> Elements allow tracking of individual lots of consumables, including late changes.
Roll tracking for web presses
Tracking of Media Shortage
Complete Inventory Tracking

6. MIS-related Upgrades Milestone Notifications
Abstract Milestones may be explicitly messaged via JMF
All Files have been delivered
All Plates have been made
Artwork has been approved …
MIS need not track explicit process network to display job status

7. MIS-related Upgrades
Manual Labor process has been extended to allow tracking of any incidental work related to a job.
Output Resources are now optional
Generic Identifier for any resource
<GeneralID IDUsage=“FooID” IDValue=“bar”
Many domain specific Identifiers exist and it is impossible to generate new attributes for all of them

8. MIS-related upgrades Component Manifest
In JDF 1.2, a set of packages could only be described in an abstract way: 3 Palettes with 20 boxes of 100 copies each.
In JDF1.3 it is possible to describe each delivery unit individually: <Component DeliveryUnit2=“Pallet1”> <Component DeliveryUnit1=“Box1”> <Component DeliveryUnit0=“Copy1” Amount=“100”/> </Component> <Component DeliveryUnit1=“Box2”> <Component DeliveryUnit0=“Copy1” Amount=“88”/> </Component> </Component>

9. MIS-related upgrades
CustomerInfo and NodeInfo are partitionable Resources
Scheduling individually per partition
Cleaner Architecture – everything is a resource
ResourceLink
More generic Processing Model with modeling of optional input Resources
Allows modeling of panic mode: “Print this if you are late, even if the InkZone profiles are not available.

10. Packaging Folder Gluer device interface DieCutting device interface
BoxFolding Process + BoxFoldingParams
DieCutting device interface
Conventional Die Cutters
Digital Die Cutters
Barcodes
Barcode Metadata – enhanced <IdentificationField>
Barcode generation
BarcodeReproParams,
BarcodeCompParams

11. Packaging Stripping extensions for Step + Repeat
Grid based and die based Step and repeat
BinderySignature
StrippingParams
Reference to DieLayout
Media: Corrugated Media
MediaLayers Elements
May also be used to describe self adhesive media as layers of GlueLine and Media Elements

12. Web / Newspaper CylinderLayout
Multiple Plates per Cylinder in a newspaper press
Web path in a web press (ProductionPath)
Newspaper specifics in PageData
Edition / EditionVersion partition keys
Bending for Platesetters
Registration punching is now defined as a separate process from ImageSetting

13. Web / Newspaper Dummy plates (ExposedMedia) PublishingIntent
Intent of Date, Circulation etc. for periodicals
Mapping of Products to a newspaper-web press
sub-element PageAssignedList in Assembly
Mapping of Tabloid to Broadsheet pages
WebInlineFinishing
Inline finishing in a web press

14. Digital Print New Partition keys for variable data printing
DocTags
SetTags
PageTags
UsageCounter elements
Click Charge tracking
Generic Consumable Resource
Stitching wire,
waste receptacles …
Many new predefined StatusDetails values
Add Workstyle to DigitalPrintingParams

15. Prepress File Format Conversion Approval Structure for
PDLCreation
RasterReading
Common connection Space with Interpreting and Rendering
Allows many new format conversions including pdf to pdf
Approval Structure for
Individual Rejecter and Approver tracking
Aprovinator override
Reference to external imposition templates
ExternalImpositionTemplate

16. Layout Partitioning
Layout partitioning instead of Layout/Signature/Sheet/Surface
Add all attributes and elements from Signature, Sheet and Surface to Layout
Replace with
Do the same for
Sheet  SheetName
Surface  Side

17. Layout Partitioning
Allows Additional Partitions for web printing and packaging
Cleaner architecture
Don’t need to describe Signatures for a poster
References to individual parts (e.g. sheets) of a Layout
Parallel Processing of individual Sheets is possible
Use standard inheritance of partitioned resources
Stripping can output a partial Layout
Components can easily reference the original Media via Component/Layout(Ref)/Media

18. Layout Example
JDF 1.2
<Layout Class="Parameter“ ID="LAY023665">
<Signature Name="SIG1">
<Sheet Name="S1">
<MediaRef rRef=“pap"/>
<Surface Side="Front">
<ContentObject Ord=“0”/>
</Surface>
<Surface Side=“Back"/>
</Sheet>
</Signature>
</Layout>
JDF 1.3
<Layout Class="Parameter“ ID="LAY023665“ PartIDKeys=“SignatureName SheetName Side”>
<Layout SignatureName="SIG1">
<Layout SheetName="S1">
<MediaRef rRef=“pap"/>
<Layout Side="Front">
<ContentObject Ord=“0”/>
</Layout>
<Layout Side=“Back"/>

19. Layout
Clarification of correct Coordinate systems to use in non-standard impositioning
File origin is not the lower left
Source Coordinate System is inverted compared to the PostScript coordinate system
Various Trim, Bleed, Crop, Page Boxes

20. Identical Elements and Versioning
Description of Identical, reused elements
Equivalence Reference from one Partition of a Resource to another
E.g. C, M and Y Separations are identical for multiple languages
Required in cases, where the structure is not purely hierarchical
E.g. French and English are Identical, so are German and Spanish
<Identical> <Part PartVersion=“English”/> </Identical>
New Sparse between Implicit and Explicit

21. PageData and Subpage elements
Add Status to PageData
Allow tracking of “pages”
Subpage elements parallel to PageData
ContentList
ContentData
N-M Relationship of ContentData and PageData
ContentElements may span multiple pages
Pages may contain multiple ContentElements

22. JMF Queuing Gang Job Support Error Reporting in JMF
Jobs are grouped by GangName
No direct placement control! (that is a JDF 1.4 item)
ForceGang to “flush” a gang to a Device
Error Reporting in JMF
Notification/Error/ErrorData contains additional details when an error occurred in JMF Messaging protocol.
Capabilities in JMF
Description of JMF Capabilities in a KnownMessages Response
Description of the role of the JMF agent
Sender or receiver

23. JMF New Message Family: Registration
Persistent Channel for a Command
MIS tells Prepress to send Commands to Press
Support for https under the assumption that certificates are exchanged …….“somehow”?

24. Yet more JDF 1.3 Intent References International URI (IRI)
SourceResource refers to the intent (or high level process) resources that were used to populate a resource
Details for Book Binding.
International URI (IRI)
Allow use of non-ASCII characters in URLs File:///Grün.pdf
Capabilities
Module Support
Link Capabilities to M odules
A Module may be physical or logical, e.g. a License
DevCapPool – reference DevCap elements multiply

25. JDF 1.3 – even more additions
Finishing
Partition by ProductionPartRun (e.g. one output run of a web press)
Product Description:
Remove Pricing from JDF and modify/move to PrintTalk
Margins in ImageSetting and ConventionalPrinting
Japanese Media Weight appendix added
Japan: weight of 1000 sheets by metric base size
US: weight of 500 sheets by base size in inches

26. JDF 1.3 ICS Activities Errata for JDF 1.2 ICSs
As few and as surgical as possible
Updates for JDF 1.3 ICSs
Prepress
Base
MIS
LayCrImp
Conventional Print
New ICSs
Packaging
Web Presses
Newspaper
Potentially Split Base into Base and Communication ICS

27. Tasks for JDF 1.4 Preliminary Brainstorming Ideas !!!
Request for Authentication in JMF (Bidirectional Certificate exchange for https)
Consolidation of High Level Layout descriptions
LayoutPreparation and Stripping
Automated Marks Generation
General production of Content
LayoutElementProduction
Complete description of explicit Ganging of multiple jobs

28. “JDF 1.3 Update” Today’s Instructor: Thanks for Listening
Dr. Rainer Prosi
CTO, CIP4
Senior Workflow Architect