Monday, March 20, 2006
TAGA Day 2 Session 1: Future of Printing
Presentations:
Towards an Ubiquitous Media Environment—Adding the E-Newspaper Channel
Maria Akesson and Carina Ihlstro, Halmstad University, Sweden
Abstract: The newspaper firms are facing an innovation, the e-newspaper published on e-paper technology. The e-paper is reflecting, giving the same reader experience as paper (such as high contrast and the possibility to read in sunlight) and is thin, flexible, and nonsensitive. The e-newspaper combines the readability and overview from the printed newspaper with the possibilities of online media such as constant updates, interactivity, and video, and it is predicted to replace the printed edition in the long run.
Notes: This paper looks at the technology on the market that will enable the the distribution and consumption of newspaper content using e-readers.
Market Conditions for European Publication Printing - A twenty year survey - 2005
Anders Bjurstedt, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract: This paper deals with an important part of an ongoing survey of the European publication printing industry and highlights the present market conditions and product specifications compared to prevailing conditions twenty years ago. In 1985–86, one of the most comprehensive studies of the publication printing industry was carried out by the European Rotogravure Association in Munich . This study was the first of its kind and a comparable study has, to the author's knowledge, never been compiled. The objective of the present paper is to determine what factors are important when the choice of a particular printing method is made, and if this process was fundamentally different in 1985 than today. The hypothesis is that there were some determining factors in 1985 such as the economy of scale, the speed (lead-time), and finally the quality of the printing process to be chosen. In order to make the two studies comparable, the same questionnaire has been used today as twenty years ago, with only one minor amendment about what digital format the present customers prefer.
Automation and JDF Workflows
Mark Bohan, PIA/GATF, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Abstract: This paper addresses the impact of both automation and JDF workflows in postpress operations. The time savings obtained using actual print jobs are quantified.
Notes:Bohan ran time trials using a JDF-enabled cutter and folder and compared them to running the same jobs without utilizing a JDF-enabled workflow.
Integration Patterns Applied To Print Production
Claes Buckwalter, Linköping University (Digital Media division), Norrköping, Sweden
Abstract: In a modern printing plant, software systems are ubiquitous and indispensable. Systems for order management, production planning, and other management information systems are implemented in software. Most, if not all, equipment on the plant floor has a software front end that either controls the physical equipment directly or displays instructions for a human operator to interpret and execute. The software systems are not isolated islands. During production these systems need to communicate and exchange information with each other. A management information system may send configuration parameters to production equipment, or production equipment may send status updates to a management information system. This type of communication is typically implemented using a message interchange protocol—a message being a discrete unit of data sent between systems. In the printing industry the messaging protocol with the widest acceptance is Job Messaging Format (JMF), part of the JDF industry standard.
Notes:
Asynchronous messaging: Grabbing data file from a 'hot folder.'
synchronous messaging: Messaging via HTTP
Use of Pattern language in engineering print automation communications systems.
What happens when a message fails to make it to a system?
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