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Finishing was always going to be the last part of the process to feel the full benefits of JDF, and while it’s not time to herald the lights out bindery just yet, with the advent of Heidelberg’s JDF-based Postpress manager we’re finally – eight years on from the first fanfare welcoming JDF – seeing it at all stages of the workflow.

Postpress manager is the last of the Prinect tools for managing production, following on from Prepress Manager and Pressroom Manager. It’s the interface between MIS and the bindery and can control all of Heidelberg’s machines. The firm is pushing its benefits for collecting shopfloor data as much as the automation of machine set-ups.