FORM June, 2001 The E-Files -
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Published on: 6/1/2001
Last Visited: 6/8/2001
PrintTalk members have put aside their competitive concerns and focused on the needs of the customer-direct communication between an e-commerce site and a printer's management system , says Stephen Hallberg , chairman of the board of PrintTalk and president of Arvada , Colo.-based Parsec Corp.
In April , PrintTalk amended its membership agreement to enable broader industry participation and to gain broader adoption of its open architecture philosophy.The organization's board of directors voted to remove from its scope statement a sentence reading , Members will support direct data exchange from any compliant print management system to any e-commerce application with no more than one hosted application between buyer and printer firewalls..
We discovered that some potential members who wanted to join could not meet this requirement , Hallberg said.We felt it better to make this change and enable PrintTalk to continue to gain the support of the broader printing and graphic arts industry. PrintTalk membership is now open to any company that develops software for graphic arts applications and that supports implementation of open communications standards.
PrintTalk members have put aside their competitive concerns and focused on the needs of the customer..Stephen HallbergChairman of PrintTalk IncPresident of Parsec CorpArvada , Colo
PrintTalk's 21 members support a popular standard from the e-commerce domain , cXML ( Commercial eXtensible Markup Language ) , and the widely supported emerging standard from the graphic arts domain , JDF ( Job Definition Format ).cXML recognizes data types and communicates commercial transactions. ( That information is a ship-to address.That information is an invoice number... ) JDF , which communicates job and delivery specifications , is important to PrintTalk members because it defines wishes of print buyers without tying those wishes to specific print processes.