CIP4 Updates Key Product Certification Standards
TOKYO, Japan—The International Cooperation for the Integration of the Processes in Prepress, Press and Postpress (CIP4) organization released a new set of Interoperability Conformance Specifications (ICS) based upon version 1.3 of the JDF specification.
Current JDF product certification testing, managed by PIA/GATF, is based upon JDF 1.2 ICS, which is the previous generation of ICS documents. ICS define subsets of the JDF specification that graphic arts systems and software must implement to establish a minimum level of JDF support. Each ICS is specific to a production step or the connectivity between a system that is managing a print job and a system that is executing a process step, such as the MIS to Prepress ICS or the Prepress to Conventional Printing ICS.
