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Software 2000 Makes In-the-Box JDF Job-Ticketing Easy - MetaDocs™

OXFORD — October 3, 2003 — Software 2000 announces the addition of MetaDocs™ to its Component Driver Architecture (CDA) range of driver development toolkits.

It is a growing market requirement for both the communication of print job requirements to the print house and the interoperability of the different printing components to be made as seamless as possible. This is to ease the process from the design of a document, complete with definition of the printing requirement, through to the printed finished article. Common standards for interoperability and communication of device capabilities and print job requirements have been driven by this requirement and printing vendors are adopting standards such as CIP4's Job Definition Format (JDF) and PWG's Semantic Model to make this possible.

MetaDocs provides added-value support for both Semantic Model and JDF directly within the printer device driver. In addition OEMs can use alternate XML standards or their own proprietary methodologies should this be their requirement.

The new MetaDocs feature is designed to allow OEMs to easily add job ticketing capabilities into their printer drivers. It does so at the time the user logically "prints" the document even if the "print" is actually to a file with a job ticket. This allows easy and straightforward creation of exact print definitions by the designer creating the print job.

Software 2000 provides the in-box intelligence, within the CDA toolkits, to enable easy paper handling for different aspects of page-by-page processing in the driver. The job ticket can even override the application settings within the application to achieve the correct ticketed print output.

In addition, Digital Copier vendors can enable the user to save the MetaDocs tickets of jobs that their Digital Copier and driver routinely processes. This allows a user to send a job definition to a print house having performed complete proofing of their document locally.

OEMs benefit from their Digital Copiers being industry compliant and can even allow the printing of separately created ticketed jobs from other sources such as third-party ticketing applications (where their device can support or map the required functions).

All Component Driver Architecture (CDA) 3.7 toolkits incorporate MetaDocs as a standard value-add feature. Software 2000 customers can upgrade their existing CDA drivers and provide their channels with more competitive devices directly supporting the latest XML-based standards.

For more information on PWG Semantic Model [www.pwg.org]

About Software 2000

Founded in 1989, Software 2000 is the world's largest independent developer of printer driver and imaging technologies. The company licenses these technologies to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) of printer and digital copiers, through Driver Development Kits (DDKs) and custom driver developments. These customizable technologies support Microsoft Windows, Macintosh and Linux environments. Software 2000 technologies reduce cost and time to market whilst increasing driver performance.

Since the company began, Software 2000 has been at the forefront of innovation in print imaging and has worked with all of the major OEM suppliers of printers and digital copiers. These OEMs include Canon, Epson, HP, Konica, Lexmark, Océ, Olivetti, Ricoh, Samsung, Sharp, Toshiba, Xerox and many others. There are now over 80 million drivers containing Software 2000 technology in use around the world.

Software 2000 is headquartered in Oxford, England, with offices in Japan, the United States and Canada.

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