JDF Sheetfed Press Operations

Matthias BeyerHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG

Who‘s this person?

Johannes Gutenberg (~1400 – 1468)

First known workflow in a printshop?!

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PressPress PostpressPostpress

„Order Management“

„Order Management“

Order:Bible, 2 Volumes150 x Paper30 x Parchment

„Prepress“„Prepress“

42 Lines1282 Sheets

Workflow nowadays - Press Controller JDF Integration

MISMIS

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Conventional Printing Sheetfed ICS

• Connectivity between MIS Press Controller described in – ICS-MISCPS, based on

– ICS-MIS

– ICS-Base

• Connectivity between Prepress Press described in– ICS-PRECP, based on

– ICS-MIS-Prepress

– ICS-Base

ICS-MISCPS

• Level1

– Jobticket submission via hotfolder

– no messaging supported by the Press Controller

• Level2

– messaging according to ICS-Base Level3

Sample of information provided by MIS to the Press Controller

Common Job Information• JobName

• JDF / @DescriptiveName

• SheetName• JDF [ConventionalPrinitng] / Component [Output] /

@DescriptiveName

• Amount• ComponentLink[@Usage=“Output”] /

AmountPool[Good] / @Amount

Sample of information provided by MIS to the Press Controller

Printing Material Information

• non preprocessed sheets– Human readable Media name: Media / @DescriptiveName

– Media dimensions: Media / @Dimension, Media / @Thickness

• preprinted / precutted Media– Sheet Length / Width: Component [Input] / @Dimensions

– Media information: Component [Input] / Layout

Sample of information provided by MIS to the Press Controller

Color Information• Colors on sheet and order of printing

– ColorantControl / DeviceColorantOrder

• Colors to print– ExposedMedia

• Name of a Colorant– ColorantControl / ColorPool / Color / @DescriptiveName

• Standard Process Colorant yes / no– ColorantControl / ColorPool / Color / @CMYK

• Information initially provided by MIS, update by Prepress (Resource Command)

Sample of information provided by MIS to the Press Controller

More Process information• Human readable workstep name:

ConventionalPrintingParams / @DescriptiveName• Workstyle: ConventionalPrintingParams /

@WorkStyle

– Simplex: One pass, one set of plates.

– Perfecting: One pass, two sets of plates

– WorkAndBack: Two passes, two sets of plates

– WorkAndTumble / WorkAndTurn: Two passes, one set of plates.

Sample of information provided by Press Controller to the MIS

Signaling (Status)• Current Device Status

– DeviceInfo / @DeviceStatus, @StatusDetails

– DeviceInfo / @Speed

– DeviceInfo / @ProductionCounter

• Job Status– DeviceInfo / JobPhase / @Status, @StatusDetails

– DeviceInfo / JobPhase / @Amount: Amount of Component (Output) already produced

– DeviceInfo / JobPhase / @Waste

– DeviceInfo / JobPhase / @PercentCompleted: Node processing progress in %

Sample of information provided by Press Controller to the MIS

Progress signaling for different WorkStyles

@WorkStyle=„Simplex“ (all color separations)Input: ExposedMedia

SignatureName

SheetName

Side Front

Separation

Output: JMF Status,...

SignatureName

SheetName

Side Front

Separation -Pass 1

@Amount

@PercentCompleted

Sample of information provided by Press Controller to the MIS

•Progress signaling for different WorkStyles

@WorkStyle=„Perfecting“(all color separations)Input: ExposedMedia

SignatureName

SheetName

Side Front, Back

Separation

Output: JMF Status,...

SignatureName

SheetName

Side -

Separation -Pass 1

@Amount

@PercentCompleted

Sample of information provided by Press Controller to the MIS

•Progress signaling for different WorkStyles

@WorkStyle=„WorkAndBack“ (both sides, all separations)Input: ExposedMedia

SignatureName

SheetName

Side Front, Back

Separation

Output: JMF Status,...

SignatureName

SheetName

Side Front, Back

Separation -Pass 1

@Amount

@PercentCompleted

Pass 2

Sample of information provided by Press Controller to the MIS

•Progress signaling for different WorkStyles

@WorkStyle=„WorkAndTumble“, „WorkAndTurn“Input: ExposedMedia

SignatureName

SheetName

Side Front

Separation

Output: JMF Status,...

SignatureName

SheetName

Side Front, Back

Separation -Pass 1

@Amount

@PercentCompleted

Pass 2

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