Networked Graphic Production (NGP), the industry organization whose goals are to increase efficiencies through automation, integration, and cross-vendor interoperability–including JDF–has added three new partner companies: Quark Inc., Wave Corp., and Olive Inc. NGP now has 46 member partners.

“NGP continues to grow with new partners who see NGP “? as the best organization to bring JDF integration to market,” says Flip Buyse, NGP chair. “By applying the power of JDF through an open, international print-industry organization, these partners know they can achieve the goal of bringing to market ROI-based integration to our common customers.”
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Quark Inc. provides desktop-publishing software and enterprising solutions, including QuarkXPress. Wave Corp. develops, distributes, and supports the MediaBank digital-asset management system. Olive Inc. is a leading management information system provider in Japan. (Quark: www.quark.com; Wave: www.wavecorp.com; Olive: www.olv.co.jp).