The International Prepress Association’s (IPA) chose the Hiflex management information system (MIS) to provide JDF testing files at its recent annual conference, in Chicago. Vendors who participated were Agfa, Kodak, Dalim and Fuji. IPA tested the demonstrated functionality of the vendors and what each software did with the JDF file.
The contest was structured so that each participant would receive a JDF file freshly generated by the Hiflex MIS ‘Office’ Estimation Module, simulating live production of a printing company utilising Hiflex MIS. Each vendor participant consumed the Hiflex generated JDF file and was tested on the features of their software.
Gary E Marron, Hiflex president and CEO commented “We frankly integrate with their systems everyday but this test was unique in that the vendors were asked to consume our JDF files ’cold’ with the objective to test JDF in an unrehearsed fashion“.
Jim Harvey, executive director of the CIP4 Organisation, comments: “This was a truly and totally blind exchange of files and everyone at Agfa, Dalim, FujiFilm, Hiflex and Kodak should be commended for their fortitude in conducting a test with so many potential pitfalls and in such a public setting.
“In the end, I think everyone involved learned much about how each other’s products work, but were also pleased with the results. It’s plain that each of these systems can communicate via JDF, with no smoke or mirrors.”
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