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IDP ICS and associated ICS’s

Rick Yardumian, CanonJean-Marc Steux, Océ

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Combinations described in IDP ICS(IDP ICS 1.3 page 11, table 2)

Level of this ICS

[Base-ICS]

[JMF-ICS]

[MIS-ICS] Description

0 0 - - This combination of ICS levels includes: Fire and Forget (whether using JMF or not); subset of IDP Level 1. Sheet fed, black and white, Highlight Color, and color integrated digital printing.See Section 3.1 for further details.

1 2 1 1 This combination of ICS levels is referred to as “1a” and adds: Hot Folder Job submission and return; Same printing features as Level 0 which is a Common printing feature subset for (1)

Quick-Print and Production Printing with a single Integrated Digital Printers and (2) Commercial Digital Printing with several distinct Devices for RIPing and Marking and off-line finishing.

2 1 This combination of ICS levels is referred to as “1b” and adds: Adds JMF used for Job Submission, Job return and Queue management. IDP adds DeviceInfo/JobPhase/

@PercentCompleted for JMF Status Signal.

2 2 or higher This combination of ICS levels is referred to as “1c” and adds: Adds Job Costing.

2 2 2 2 or higher This combination of ICS levels adds: advanced imposition; multi-file support; UsageCounter Resource for counting Impressions; In-line Finishing, but is OPTIONAL to Support; Note: Level 2 is closely aligned to Level 1 of the [IDP-ICS-1.0], with the addition of the

JDF UsageCounter.

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Limitations of the lower levels

• IDP ICS level 0 is “fire and forget” submission and many print parameters are optional. The Manager is never sure that the job is accepted

and is never sure that the parameters are accepted• IDP ICS levels 1 a/b/c do not support finishing

This is a huge limitation when considering the existing printers, that support many finishing combinations

IDP Level 2 is the most relevant level at digital printer features point of view

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Levels of certified products

• The certified products are– Level 1C (one prepress product)– Level 2 (MIS and printer products)

• No Output Management System (OMS)• No Digital Prepress ApplicationWe are missing essential Digital Printing

applications!

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What is an OMS?

• OMS = Output Management System• Sometimes named DPM = Digital Production Manager • The OMS is responsible for the workflow of the Digital

Printing section of a print shop• It has connectivity

– to rest of the print shop– to Digital Printers, Digital Prepress application, Finishers, …

• Functionality: job management, cluster and load balancing, access rights, conversions, VDP, Media, automation …

• Prepress for Digital Printers can either be included or separately available

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The current certified productsPrepress

MIS

Printer

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Other digital workflow products

OMS

Digital Prepress

Printer

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A more complete picture

OMS

Digital Prepress

Finisher

IDP + MISIDPFinishing

Legend

Prepress

MIS

Printer

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JDF and JMF requirements for an OMS

• JDF: use all possible printer functionalities– Including finishing, which can be executed on the

printer or an near/off-line finisher

IDP ICS Level 2• JMF: for submission, printer status and job

status (basic monitoring) JMF Level 2 without Job Management

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Proposal

• Keep the existing unchanged• Extend certifiable base to OMS and Digital Prepress• Create an “IDP for OMS” table for OMS in addition to

the existing table, which is “IDP for MIS”• In the new “IDP for OMS” table, the levels of the ICS’s

are set according to the OMS requirements• “This ICS” level 2• BASE ICS level 2• JMF ICS: SubmitQueueEntry and QueueStatus mandatory, the rest of

JMF ICS Level 2 is optional

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New Table: IDP for OMS

• Exact content to be validated• For a worker, compatibility with Level 2 of

“MIS table” No need of a dedicated certification

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Level of this ICS

[Base-ICS]

[JMF-ICS] [MIS-ICS] Description

2(1) 2 - - IDP-OMS Level 1

Typically used between an OMS/Digital Prepress and a Printer Device(1) Without Usage CountersSubmitQueueEntry mandatory and QueueStatus optional

2 2 2 2 or higher

IDP-OMS Level 2 = Level 2 of “IDP for MIS” table

Typically used between an MIS and an OMS/Digital Prepress