JDF/CIM>
JDF Framework and CIP4
Avanti is a strong proponent of the Job Definition Format (JDF) standard. For several years now, Avanti has been a member of CIP4, a consortium of vendors, consultants and end-users in the print communications and Graphic Arts industry, covering a variety of equipment, software, peripherals, and processes. Avanti participates in focus groups to help define future versions of JDF, to study user requirements, and to design the JDF Software Development Kit (SDK).
Avanti was one of the first companies to provide complete, JDF-certified integrated software. Avanti’s award-winning JDF framework helps our customers move away from “one-off” JDF customization projects to an environment where new equipment and new software can communicate via JDF in a very cost effective way. The list of Avanti supported prepress software and production equipment for both the press shop and the bindery is growing every day.
Avanti’s JDF framework ensures that JDF is no longer the exclusive domain of large corporations. It gives any shop the ability to send automated job instructions to a machine using JDF, and subsequently the machine can then send information back to Avanti using JDF and/or the Job Messaging Format (JMF). Essentially, Avanti's JDF framework creates a seamless information and data-transfer link between your Management Information System (MIS) software, prepress, production and bindery equipment. In short, it provides an environment where all the software and equipment in your shop speaks the same language.
Below is an example of JDF and JMF information flow between systems with different levels of JDF/JMF support:
Avanti’s JDF framework supports all of the leading prepress software as
well as the leading manufacturers of press and finishing equipment.
Information that is exchanged between systems is dependent on the creator of the data. When a job is originally created in Avanti Print MIS, the Avanti JDF module will send as much job detail as can be interpreted. This information includes, among other things, job ID's, job ticket numbers, job descriptions, media information, quantities, etc.
Avanti's sole focus is on providing fully integrated software tailored to the unique way you run your business.