How to Implement JDF
If you want to implement JDF in your operation how do you get from where you are now to where you want to be? A lot has been written about the potential that JDF has for improving the efficiency of print workflows but Global Graphics is one of the few companies to identify the practical steps that can be taken along the road to implementing JDF! For more detail download our White Paper by following the link on the right.
Your first step is to analyse your existing workflows. What exactly does every piece of equipment, and every staff member do during the production of a job?
Be sure you record what actually happens, rather than what your standard operating practices say should happen. Start with the route taken by a job of a typical format, assuming that no errors occur and that no late changes are requested by the customer. Then add in the error handling and rework processing routes.
- What happens if you don't get customer approval on time?
- Where are the bottlenecks in the process?
- Where do quality control checks find errors most often?
- Are you receiving a number of poorly constructed files from your customers?
- Where do the errors come from?
