Maritim Hotel and International Congress Center, Dresden, Germany
Hosted by Koenig & Bauer AG
Dresden is the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The city's population is 500,000 (2006) and just 150 km to Prague in Czech Republic.
Dresden has a long history as the capital and royal residence for the Kings of Saxony, who for centuries furnished the city with extraordinary cultural and artistic splendor. The controversial bombing of Dresden in World War II and 40 years within the Soviet bloc state of East Germany changed the face of the city dramatically.
Since German re-unification, Dresden has emerged as a cultural, political, and economic centre in the eastern part of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Maritim Hotel and International Congress Center, the place for this Interop Event, is locating just beside of the River Elbe, and close to City center and also to Dresden Airoirt. Very nice view of the river and cultural buildings are available through the big windows of the Congress Center. Very good environment for the event.
64 people from 36 International companies attended to this event. 6 Japanese venders and over 10 Japanese people joined to this event. Some new faces were there. All systems Komori tested were based on JDF V.1.2. Komori is waiting for completion of ICS (Interoperability Conformance Specifications) V.1.3 to check our K-Station for JDF V.1.3.
Komori sent two software engineers and one marketing people for Interop Test Event and Technical Meetings from March 12th through 16th. Registered product is K-Station Ver. 2.12 beta10 at this time.
Komori tested with 7 MIS companies/systems and 2 Prepress companies/3 systems throughout 3 days. With 10 systems, Komori K-Station worked without any problem on tests. For some systems, Komori staff suggested solutions to improve problems.
CIP4 will have a pavilion at IGAS 2007 in Tokyo. During this event, CIP4 Pavilion and other activities were explained by representative of CIP4 IGAS Planning Group.
Next Interop Event will be held at Foster City, California, USA between October 8 through 12, 2007.
At the present moment, Komori already realized JDF communication between Komori K-Station and MIS at around 30 sites all over the world. Komori is pushing ahead CIP4 policy in the industry.