Do you need to know if your Fiery controller has the Fiery JDF feature set available? Check the Fiery JDF Certified Printers link on the Fiery JDF Technology page! We plan to regularly add more Fiery controller models to this list, enabling more integrations with web to print, MIS, prepress and other JDF-submitting applications. Start reducing the number of touch points in your workflows to increase productivity!
20Jan2011
27Oct2010
We are excited to see the first Fiery controller model shipping with a set of features running on the Fiery controller itself to support industry standard JDF workflows. The Fiery controller driving Xerox Color 800/1000 Presses is based on Fiery System 9 R2, which includes JDF technology as a standard feature.
According to the press release,
This [Fiery System 9 R2] release also introduces the next generation of embedded JDF technology resident on the Fiery server, enabling seamless and powerful integration with third-party and EFI workflow applications. Fiery JDF integrated technology enables simplified configuration and integration between production workflows, automates data collection and reduces manual data re-entry which significantly improves production turn-around and shrinks waste. Fiery JDF does not require any additional hardware, making the move to an automated JDF workflow cost effective as well.
We are starting to see customers turn on the JDF feature set to enable them to realize some of the benefits integrated workflows can provide today.
Going forward, all new Fiery models based on the Fiery System 9 R2 or newer will ship standard with the Fiery JDF feature set, enabling greater productivity and accuracy by integrating with JDF workflows with an increasing number of Fiery controller models.
21Apr2010
The new Fiery JDF page at http://efi.com/fjdf/ is now live. The page is starting out with some information including a Fiery JDF brochure and presentation. More information and links to software will follow.
01Mar2010
How to create JDF job definitions with Acrobat and send them to Fiery controllers
Posted by Mark W. Ford in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsHere is a great video on How to create JDF job definitions with Acrobat and InDesign. Just configure Acrobat’s JDF submission manager to send a MIME to the Fiery controller’s JMF URL to have the Fiery controller process those tickets using the stand-alone Fiery JDF Connector or the built-in Fiery JDF feature set that both support industry-standard product intent and IDP ICS process JDF tickets.
12Feb2010
Fiery JDF (FJDF) is a set of features tightly integrated into Fiery controllers to provide JDF/JMF functionality, enabling JDF integration to a Fiery controller without any extra workstation required. It is not an application, but rather components running together with other modules on the Fiery controller itself, such as web services, database, PDF-handling routines, Paper Catalog, configuration, job logging, etc.
FJDF provides support for another transport protocol, JMF (a way to get a job to the Fiery controller like LPR, AppleTalk, ftp, email, etc.) and another job ticketing format, JDF (a way to specify how to print a job, like PostScript, PCL, PPML, etc.). It works with all PDL (Page Description Language – what should be on the pages) content types.
Starting in 2010 all new Fiery controller models based on the latest Fiery codebase will ship standard with FJDF. Based on market interest, EFI will also make easy-to-install FJDF updates available to many already-shipping Fiery controllers.
12Feb2010
What is the Fiery JDF Connector?
Posted by Mark W. Ford in Definitions, EFI Digital StoreFront, Fiery, JDF and MIS. 0 CommentsThe Fiery JDF Connector (FJC) is a JDF front end that runs on a separate Windows workstation enabling multiple Fiery controllers to participate fully in any standard JDF IDP ICS or JDF product intent workflow. On the front end, it provides all the JDF and JMF support and user interface needed to integrate the supported Fiery controllers in any standard JDF workflow and on the back end it integrates tightly with the Fiery controller’s native interfaces.
EFI™ has been shipping versions of this stand-alone application since 2005 to integrate with EFI solutions such as EFI’s Digital StoreFront® (DSF) web to print and EFI’s MIS print management solutions, as well as any other workflow solution that can send industry standard JDF via JMF to the Fiery JDF Connector.
A list of Fiery controllers the Fiery JDF Connector officially supports is available on the FJC’s system requirements page.
11Nov2009
The folks at WhatTheyThink.com attended EFI’s 2009 Connect user conference in Las Vegas and recorded some stories of attendee experiences. Here is a video of Fiery dealer Jerome Wilson talking about how the knowledge he gained in our Fiery breakout session “Leveraging JDF in Production” helped him close a deal for a Xerox engine with a Fiery controller.
13Oct2009
The JDF specification provides a robust job ticketing technology for printing workflows , not only because the 300+ CIP4 member organizations work together as an industry to write the specification, but also because we come together at least a couple times per year to “interop” – set up our solutions and send JDF job tickets to each other to make sure we all have the same understanding of the specification we wrote together and to clarify any unclear areas. An interop schedule usually runs something like this:
- Sunday before the interop: tutorial for beginners and workshop for developers
- Monday morning – Wednesday noon: 30 – 100 people set up MIS, prepress, web to print, litho press consoles, finishing control consoles, digital printing systems (like the Fiery controller), etc. and we all send and receive jobs from each other. It is a somewhat informal and very cooperative atmosphere.
- Evenings: There is at least one planned social event during the interop, but many evenings we find ourselves together in small groups at restaurants (often more tends to be accomplished in these unplanned, informal meetings than in the official face to face working group meetings).
- Wednesday noon – Friday afternoon: Various working groups (e.g., the digital printing working group, which is very important for Fiery workflows) schedule face to face meetings. The interop lab is still open, but very little interoping is done the second half of the week because we are all busy in meetings.
- Saturday: The CIP4 technical steering committee meets to consider new proposals from the working groups. If there have been a lot of overlapping meetings, there is also a plenary session to review what was covered in all the working group meetings.
13Jul2009
Many CIP4 members could easily teach the content of the JDF Expert program, but for people wanting to quickly ramp up on JDF technology the objective of the JDF Expert Certificate Training Program provided by CIP4 and IPA is to rapidly provide a comprehensive understanding of the JDF process. The program is comprised of 14 separate training modules that address specific topics associated with JDF technology. The program concludes with a final examination for those individuals interested in earning a JDF Expert Certificate.
13Jul2009
JDF product certification testing is based on ICS (Interoperability Conformance Specification) documents. CIP4 works with PIA (Printing Industries of America) as the first product certification testing facility. When you see a product labeled “JDF Certified” it has been tested and certified against a specific ICS document.
