One job ticket. Every press vendor.
BuildYourPrint writes JDF 1.6 job tickets: the open CIP4 standard your prepress and press software already read. What is in the ticket, which presses read it, and the templates we are building. JDF 1.6 is part of the Enterprise tier.
JDF 1.6: every press vendor.
Every order can produce a JDF 1.6 job ticket, the CIP4 standard, with the job, the customer, the quantities and versions, the paper, the press and its print process, the imposition and folding, the binding and the finishing devices. The ticket is vendor-neutral: Heidelberg Prinect, Komori, Koenig & Bauer, manroland, RMGT, HP Indigo, Konica Minolta, Canon, Ricoh, Xerox, Fujifilm and others read the same standard.
Each press and finishing machine in your admin carries its JDF identity, device id, name, manufacturer, model, print process, so the ticket names your machines the way your front end knows them.
- JDF 1.6 MIS-to-prepress ticket per order, one click
- Device identity per press and finishing machine
- Press templates for the most common front ends: in the making
- Part of the Enterprise tier
A press in the admin: JDF print process, device name and id, manufacturer, model.
What the ticket carries.
One JDF 1.6 file per order, written the moment the order is confirmed.
JDF 1.4 as most systems export it. JDF 1.6 as we write it.
The few web-to-print systems that write JDF at all mostly still export version 1.4. This is what the step to 1.6, and to a ticket written from the calculation, changes for your prepress.
| In the ticket | JDF 1.4 export (typical) | JDF 1.6 by BuildYourPrint |
|---|---|---|
| Specification | Version 1.4, published in 2008 and frozen since | Version 1.6, published in 2018 alongside XJDF 2.0, what current front ends and MIS connectors are built and tested for |
| The sheet | A job header; prepress imposes again | The calculated sheet: n-up, fold scheme, katernen, waste |
| Versions | One job per version, or a note | Every version with its position on the sheet and its sheet count |
| Finishing | Free-text remarks | Binding and finishing as operations, each with its device |
| Your presses | Generic device names | The JDF device id, manufacturer, model and print process of your own presses |
| Press templates | One export for everyone | Templates per front end in the making: Prinect, HP, Konica Minolta and the others |
| Where it comes from | Typed in after the order | Written from the same calculation that made the price, one click per order |
In the making: a template per press.
The standard is one; the way each front end likes its ticket is not. We are building templates for most of the presses on the market, so the ticket arrives exactly the way Prinect, your HP front end or your Konica Minolta controller expects it.
Vendor names are trademarks of their owners. BuildYourPrint is an independent product and is not affiliated with these vendors.
- Heidelberg Prinect
- Komori
- Koenig & Bauer
- manroland
- RMGT
- HP Indigo
- Konica Minolta
- Canon
- Ricoh
- Xerox
- Fujifilm
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