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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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

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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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