CIP4 and Ryerson announce JDF 101 Education Event : packagePrinting

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January 05, 2007

TORONTO, Ontario?The International Cooperation for the Integration of Processes in Prepress, Press and Postpress (CIP4) organization and Ryerson University announced a free ?JDF Education Event? to be held at Ryerson University in Toronto on Tuesday, 20 February 2007.

This one-day program will cover all aspects of print process automation, CIP4 and the Job Definition Format (JDF), and is hosted by Ryerson University?s School of Graphic Communications Management. This JDF 101 Education Event is the first of its kind in Canada. Speakers will identify the benefits of JDF-enabled process automation experienced by small and medium-sized commercial offset and digital printers, and will provide an introduction to how JDF works, and its function in the modern printing plant. Speakers include:
? Mark Wilton, CIP4 Education and Marketing & Global Initiative Manager at Kodak Graphic Communications

? James Harvey, Executive Director of CIP4 Organization

? Patrick Bolan, President and CEO of Avanti Computer Systems

? Tim Hassan, National Digital Solutions Systems Specialist at AGFA Graphics Canada

? Dr Abhay Sharma, Chair of Ryerson University?s School of Graphic Communications Management

The JDF specification is intended to enable the entire industry, including designers, publishers, printing and graphic arts companies, and others to work with software and systems from different manufacturers in an integrated workflow facilitated by a common data interchange syntax."