Hot Topics: JDF: What It Is and Where It Is Going--PDF

What is JDF? What is JMF? What is ICS? What is CIP4? What is the Automated Solutions Network? These questions and many others are answered in this volume of Hot Topics, which compiles articles on the featured topic from recent issues of GATFWorld, Management Portfolio, and Printing Industries of America: The Magazine to give you a thorough and up-to-date overview of one of the industry's hottest topics. Contents include:

• JDF: What It Is Now and Where It Is Going, Brandon Iskey and Dr. Mark Bohan
• JDF and JMF: What Are the Benefits, Brandon Iskey and Dr. Mark Bohan
• JDF: Status, Updates, and Workflow Solutions, Brandon Iskey and Dr. Mark Bohan (from 2009 Forecast)
• JDF: Status, Updates, and Workflow Solutions, Brandon Iskey and Dr. Mark Bohan (from 2010 Forecast)
• Where Does Workflow End? Jon Bracken
• Optimizing Workflow through Integration, Douglas Striker and Peter Doyle
• Automation and JDF in Production, Brandon Iskey and Dr. Mark Bohan
• Integration Techniques for an Automation Production Facility, Brandon Iskey and Dr. Mark Bohan
• The Role of MIS in a Digital Workflow, Gerald Walsh
• Automation and MIS, Brandon Iskey and Dr. Mark Bohan
• Management Information Systems, Dr. Mark Bohan, Brandon Iskey, and Dillon Mooney
• Print Business Management Software--How Does It Fit? Dennis Mason
• Printing: Becoming a Computer-Centric Business, Donald H. Goldman
• Looking to the FUture, David L. Zwang