JDF Sheetfed Press Operations Matthias Beyer Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Feb 22, 2016
JDF Sheetfed Press Operations
Matthias BeyerHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Who‘s this person?
Johannes Gutenberg (~1400 – 1468)
First known workflow in a printshop?!
2
Press Postpress
„Order Management“
Order:Bible, 2 Volumes150 x Paper30 x Parchment
„Prepress“
42 Lines1282 Sheets
Workflow nowadays - Press Controller JDF Integration
MIS
PrepressPressController
SignalCommand
2
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(3) St
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(5) Retu
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(4) Resource
(2) SubmitQueueEntry
(6) Status
(7) ReturnQueueEntry
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 FrontSeparation
Output: JMF Status,...
SignatureName
SheetName
Side FrontSeparation - 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, BackSeparation
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, BackSeparation
Output: JMF Status,...
SignatureName
SheetName
Side Front, BackSeparation - 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 FrontSeparation
Output: JMF Status,...
SignatureName
SheetName
Side Front, BackSeparation - Pass 1
@Amount
@PercentCompleted
Pass 2
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