Graph Expo Sees More JDF-Oriented Developments

At Graph Expo Global Graphics will preview the latest version of its JDF Enabler module.

At Graph Expo Global Graphics will preview the latest version of its JDF Enabler module.

It provides JDF support for the Harlequin RIP, Trappro in-RIP trapping, Colorpro in-RIP colour management and the Harlequin Screening Library.

The new JDF Enabler v2.0 introduces full compatibility with the latest JDF 1.2 specification to further improve functionality and ease of integration, allowing OEMs to bring their JDF-compatible products to market more easily, claimed Global Graphics.

Key enhancements include a seamless integration of pre-flighting across the JDF workflow and expanded colour correction and colour space conversion features.

There is also enhanced proofing, including the ability to combine pre-separated files for proofing applications as well as support for TIFF files.

Global Graphics' said it is committed to completely open solutions and the JDF-enabled Harlequin RIP, featuring version 2 of the JDF Enabler, extends that position.

It will be shown at the show exchanging JDF data live with other leading vendors' systems in an automated workflow within the JDF Pavilion.

Interoperability has been validated with numerous products from vendors throughout the industry said Global Graphics.

In the JDF Pavilion at Graph Expo, Global Graphics will be demonstrating interactive processes with equipment from Imposition, Dynagram Dynastrip, Creo Preps Job Management, Dalim Mistral, Agfa Delano and Delivery from Vio.

Global Graphics claimed that the product meets the needs of both large customers with formal workflow requirements and those looking to improve efficiency by adopting ad hoc JDF workflows, including those where imposition software is used as the control panel for the workflow.

Earlier this year at Drupa the company believes it was the first to demonstrate that JDF can be used to control individual components in a workflow.

JDF can also be used to control JDF processes such as interpretation, in-RIP imposition, rendering, separation, contone calibration, within a JDF-based production workflow added the company.

JDF support extends to JMF for easier integration with management systems, including functionality to interoperate with management information systems (MIS).

With the JDF Enabler Module the Harlequin RIP uses the process information inside a JDF file to drive the output procedure according to specific production data.

Settings such as page size, screening, trapping, imposition, calibration and colour management can be included in the job file and processed at the RIP.

Since Drupa Global Graphics has been working closely with its OEMs to make it easier for them to build a complete pre-press workflow system around the JDF-enabled Harlequin RIP and to make those systems more powerful.

"This is a highly flexible JDF solution that gives OEMs the ability to bring powerful and efficient JDF-enabled workflows, from simple routines to full-scale systems, to market very quickly and without the need to write additional controller interfaces," says Adrian Ford, chief technology officer of Global Graphics Software.

The core technology is also made available to Global Graphics partners as part of the Cortex Platform, Global Graphics' family of technologies for building digital workflows.

Graph Expo is being staged from October 10-13 in Chicago (USA).

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