Maybe. So here’s what you need to know about the Job Definition Format protocol.

By Gretchen Peck

According to Frank Romano, a professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, JDF simply is the “macro-data about your job. … It’s another file that says the job is going to go on this type of press, on a certain type of paper; it’s going to require these sorts of resources. … [The JDF information] is going to control the entire printing process automatically.”