Adobe VDP Resource Center - Solutions providers

DesignMerge

Product name:

Product description:

The DesignMerge Pro Bundle is an award-winning suite of software for InDesign that provides sophisticated variable data printing and data publishing features. And now, DesignMerge Pro is available for Adobe InDesign CS3, supporting both Macintosh and Windows based platforms.

The software is menu driven and works directly with standard InDesign documents, allowing the user to identify variable elements anywhere on the page. DesignMerge can import text, picture, article, or layout information from practically any data source and merge that information into InDesign layouts to produce unique, personalized output.

DesignMerge can output to any PostScript printer and includes built-in image caching for incredibly fast output. In addition, DesignMerge includes built-in support for both PPML and Creo VPS variable output formats, which ensures compatibility with high-end digital presses, including PPML and Creo VPS. The Pro Bundle also includes CopyFit software, which provides advanced, on-the-fly copyfitting capability; GroupPicture software, which provides support for fully variable layout elements; and the Rules Module, which can be used to construct sophisticated conditional logic (if/then/else) statements. A server version is also under development for use in web-to-print and automated production workflows.

Key VDP applications:

Direct mail
Postcards
Business cards, ID badges, invitations
Newsletters
Financial documents
Coupons, tickets, labels, consecutive numbering
Personalized marketing collateral

Localization support:

English: The software menus are in English; however, all language versions of InDesign are fully supported.

Platform support:

Windows
Macintosh

Additional Resources

Please have someone contact me about DesignMerge VDP solutions.

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DirectSmile

Product names:

DirectSmile Designer
DirectSmile Creator Pro
DirectSmile SE
DirectSmile Generator
DirectSmile Production Edition
DirectSmile Online

Product description:

DirectSmile combines a leading-edge image personalization design and production solution with Adobe InDesign to offer a document solution for VDP.

Users can create their own image personalization templates with the integrated Designer. Comprehensive layout functionality allows for highly sophisticated layouts with photorealistic looks. The solution provides automatic, high-capacity, database-driven image rendering. Images can be exported or will be automatically incorporated in variable documents generated with DirectSmile.

The included InDesign based document solution enables users to easily vary any content element based on simple rules and thus realize even highly complex business logic, including barcodes. Thanks to the integrated workflow solution, documents and personalized images can be produced in one seamless process.

DirectSmile offers optimized output of digital print files as PPML, PDF, or JLYT and directly connects to Creo, EFI, HP, or Xeikon controllers. The solution is fully scalable to any needed production volume.

DirectSmile Online

DirectSmile Online extends the possibilities of DirectSmile to the web and allows utilization of personalized images and documents for websites, e-mailings, online image previews, online shops, or web-to-print systems. Personalized images are generated dynamically and can be retrieved through web services. The solution also supports personalized animations. Through the DirectSmile Landing Page Server, users can generate personal URLs and easily set up and manage their own image personalized and fully customized landing pages or e-mailings. Designs can be created offline by using any HTML editor. Extensive tracking functions deliver highly detailed, up-to-date campaign statistics.

Key VDP applications:

DirectSmile

One-to-one marketing campaigns
Direct mail
Marketing collateral
Coupons
Greeting cards
Invitations
Calendars
Giveaways
Business cards and stationery

DirectSmile Online

Cross-media marketing campaigns
Personal URL websites
Personalized e-mailings
Web-to-print systems
Online shops

Localization:

English
German
Spanish
French
Portuguese
(Japanese, Chinese, and Korean soon to be released)

Platform support:

Windows only

Additional resources:

DirectSmile has endorsed the PDF/VT format and will feature it in upcoming product releases.

Please have someone contact me about DirectSmile VDP solutions.

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EMC Document Sciences

Product name:

xPression 3

Product description:

xPression

xPression 3, EMC Document Sciences' acclaimed customer communications management solution, enables the creation, production and multi-channel delivery of personalized customer communications in both real-time and high-volume batch. Leading insurers and financial services firms worldwide rely on xPression 3's open, flexible, service-oriented architecture, unparalleled scalability, and out-of-the-box ECM integration to easily produce a wide range of vital business documents including customized policies and contracts, relationship statements, marketing collaterals, and highly personalized correspondence for distribution via print, fax, email, SMS and the web. Built using Java™ EE and XML standards, xPression 3 enables organizations to reduce development costs by up to 90%, improve time-to-market by as much as 75%, and enhance the overall customer experience with highly effective 1:1 communications.

xPresso for Adobe InDesign, xPresso for Adobe Dreamweaver®, and xPresso for Microsoft Word are the latest design components for xPression.

xPresso for Adobe InDesign

With xPresso for Adobe InDesign, users can easily design sophisticated financial statements, invoices, and bills that combine transactional data and dynamic charts with targeted marketing messages. Available for Windows and Mac OS X, xPresso for Adobe InDesign also enables marketers to move beyond preprinted static brochures, catalogs and direct mail with targeted collaterals that are easily customized by user and segment profiles, appealing to each customer's personal interests and appropriate selling situations.

xPresso for Dreamweaver

With xPresso for Dreamweaver, you can quickly create and deploy graphically rich HTML e-mail and web landing pages right from your desktop. EMC Document Sciences' customer communications management solutions ensure brand consistency by combining variable data with digital assets driven by powerful assembly logic, resulting in highly personalized e-mail and customized web landing pages that are generated in real time.

Key VDP applications:

Personalized customer communications
On-demand fulfillment
One-to-one, one-to-many campaigns
Mailers
Collateral
Catalogs
Statements
Correspondence

Platform support:

Windows
Macintosh

Please have someone contact me about EMC Document Sciences VDP solutions.

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Em Software

Product name:

InData

Product description:

Em Software's InData plug-in lets you merge text and graphics to create a compelling one-to-one experience. It utilizes a powerful English-like scripting language that lets you include or exclude dynamic fields of text and pictures based on rules you define. InData lets you create sophisticated design layouts — it combines data merging with the complete typographic and image handling functionality of InDesign. InData is ideal for a wide variety of VDP projects, such as financial reports, postcards, catalogs, and real estate guides. InData costs US$400 and is available for the Mac and Windows versions of InDesign CS2 and CS3.

Key VDP applications:

Mail merge, customized, and so on
High-end mail merge with text and graphics
Customized documents of all types

Localization support:

English

Platform support:

Windows
Macintosh

Please have someone contact me about Em Software VDP solutions.

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EskoArtwork

Product name:

EskoArtwork Variable Data Printing plug-in for Adobe Illustrator

Product description:

The EskoArtwork Variable Data Printing module is designed specifically to fulfill the requirements of the labels and packaging markets and is fully integrated with the entire EskoArtwork preproduction workflow.

The workflow starts in Adobe Illustrator® software with a set of EskoArtwork plug-ins for barcode creation and step & repeat. The EskoArtwork VDP plug-in for Adobe Illustrator enables the operator to define VDP placeholders and to enhance and secure the label or packaging design with variable data elements such as variable barcode, images, and text.

This VDP facility is the first to offer variable elements that can be automatically cut out on a digital finishing device.

Features:

Variable barcodes, text and images in any color
XML and CSV input or database driven
Integrated with other EskoArtwork plug-ins for Illustrator to provide a full packaging and labels workflow from Illustrator
Direct connection to and optimized output for HP Indigo digital label presses
Unlimited step & repeat imposition
Multiple layout imposition
Facility to subdivide vary large VDP jobs into smaller sections for improved press handling
Easy-to-use interface
Relative positioning of VDP elements
Live VDP barcodes
Advanced color management on entire design — fixed and variable elements

Key applications:

Folding cartons
Corrugated cartons
Flexible packaging
Labels
Personalized cards
Personalized folders

Localization support:

The VDP menus are in English; however, it can be used in all Illustrator language versions.

Platform support:

Windows
Mac OS X v10.3 or later

Additional resources:

Please have someone contact me about EskoArtwork VDP solutions.

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Finite Matters, Ltd.

Product names:

PatternStream for Adobe InDesign CS2 (desktop)
PatternStream for Adobe InDesign CS3 (desktop)
PatternStream for Adobe InDesign Server CS2
PatternStream for Adobe InDesign Server CS3

Product descriptions:

PatternStream for Adobe InDesign (CS2 and CS3)

PatternStream 3 for Adobe InDesign is a revolutionary automated and database publishing program that provides graphic designers who use InDesign on the desktop a more efficient way to acquire information from databases, XML files, and other sources. PatternStream is used for data-driven projects such as catalogs, directories, reports, reference books, and other pattern-based information for print and electronic distribution. It connects directly to multiple databases and XML/HTML files; imports a variety of files, including images, word processing, and spreadsheets; and publishes directly to InDesign. PatternStream uses a unique method of viewing a data-driven publishing project as the merging of a data structure with a document hierarchy. This patented approach works directly with InDesign so that InDesign template information is available in PatternStream — and so that PatternStream publishes directly to InDesign. Publishing projects are set up using the PatternStream GUI and saved, run, saved as, and copied as necessary.

PatternStream for Adobe InDesign Server (CS2 and CS3)

PatternStream 3 for Adobe InDesign Server is a revolutionary automated database publishing program for graphic designers who need to use InDesign Server software for batch document creation. PatternStream provides a more efficient way to acquire information from databases, XML files, and other sources for data-driven projects such as catalogs, directories, reports, reference books, and other pattern-based information for print and electronic distribution. It connects directly to multiple databases and XML/HTML files; imports a variety of files, including images, word processing, and spreadsheets; and publishes directly to InDesign Server. PatternStream uses a unique method of viewing a data-driven publishing project as the merging of a data structure with a document hierarchy. This patented approach works directly with InDesign Server so that PatternStream publishes directly to it. Publishing projects are set up using PatternStream 3 for InDesign CS2 and CS3 and InDesign on the desktop and copied to the server environment to enable batch publishing. PatternStream 3 for InDesign CS2 and CS3 are sold separately.

Key VDP applications:

Customized catalogs
Customized directories
Customized/personalized course catalogs
Customized/personalized yearbooks
Direct mailings
On-demand data-driven print and electronic documents
Personalized brochures and marketing material
Personalized portfolio reports
Statements
And many more

Localization support:

English

Platform support:

Windows

Please have someone contact me about Finite Matters VDP solutions.

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Hewlett-Packard Company

Product name:

HP SmartStream Designer for Adobe InDesign CS3

Product description:

Creation and production of high-value pages has never been so easy. HP SmartStream Designer for Adobe InDesign CS3 opens up new opportunities to create complex and sophisticated designs containing fixed data or variable text and image elements on the HP Indigo digital press. HP SmartStream Designer is a software application that provides robust variable data printing and imposition tools designed specifically to optimize output from your HP Indigo digital press. HP SmartStream Designer allows you to create, integrate, and preview all personalization jobs — whether they contain fixed data or variable text and image elements.

Features and benefits at-a-glance:

Easy-to-use, integrated tools: Design, imposition, and merge variable data — all in one
Accelerate variable data print production with HP Indigo SNAP — Assemble thousands of database records in seconds
Creativity and effectiveness with image manipulation based on Adobe Photoshop® software
Increase creativity and functionality — multiple content generation tools with seamless integration including personalized images, barcodes, charts, and more
Enhance complex job productivity with automated processes
Over-the-web production, intimately integrated into HP SmartStream workflow or with external web-to-print applications
Support for optimized PDF, JLYT, and PPML output formats
Simple and automated imposition as an integral part of HP SmartStream Designer
Unlimited step & repeat imposition
Step & repeat of any signature
Multiple layout imposition
Import and impose PDF jobs
Creation of imposition templates for HP Production Pro Print Server
CMYK, HP IndiChrome, Indichrome Plus , grayscale, and spot color support
Enhanced rules for personalization
Supports Adobe InDesign layering features
Automation
Scalability

Key VDP applications:

Marketing collateral
Direct mail
Personalized postcards
Photo specialty

Localization support:

English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Platform support:

Windows XP and Windows Vista®
Mac OS X v10.4 or later

Please have someone contact me about HP VDP solutions.

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Kodak Print On-Demand Solutions (PODS)

Product name:

Kodak DARWIN VI Authoring Tool

Product description:

Kodak's PODS now offers InDesign users the opportunity to use its popular DARWIN VI Authoring Tool. A plug-in for In Design CS2 and CS3, this new version of DARWIN software allows you to design, author, and manage full-color variable data documents in which all elements — text, graphics, colors, layouts, backgrounds, and even entire pages — are dynamic. DARWIN also supports advanced VDP capabilities for impressive one-to-one communications such as personalized images and dynamic charts and barcodes. Native to Mac and Windows users (new), DARWIN efficiently handles large databases, allowing you to create extensive, personalized marketing promotional campaigns for increased ROI. Output formats include CREO Variable Print Specifications (VPS) — for optimal speed and performance with CREO Digital Color Servers, Optimized PostScript, PPML, VDX, VIPP, and PDF. DARWIN is available in two configurations: the industry-standard DARWIN Desktop and the more advanced DARWIN Pro with an enhanced feature set for more complex jobs.

Key VDP applications:

Customized publications and catalogs
One-to-one marketing
Direct mailer pieces
Personalized information kits
Personalized mailings and newsletters
Customized brochures and datasheets
Customized certificates, cards, and labels
Mail merge
And more

Platform support:

Windows
Macintosh

Additional resources:

Case study:

CMD Services case study (PDF: 3.2M)

Kodak PODS is an Adobe InDesign Server partner. The company has endorsed the PDF/VT format and will feature it in an upcoming product release.

Please have someone contact me about Kodak Print On-Demand VDP solutions.

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Objectif Lune

Product name:

PrintShop Mail

Product description:

PrintShop Mail is a professional software tool that optimizes the process of merging variable database information with a design. Fast, efficient, and easy to use, PrintShop Mail makes personalized printing quick and easy. It integrates database information into the layout of a document. You can use any database format and any page layout or design application, including Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and PageMaker® software; Corel; Microsoft Word; and more. This means that there is no network congestion, and it allows the PostScript printer to print at or near rated speed. PrintShop Mail is available for Macintosh and Windows.

Key VDP applications:

One-to-one print campaigns
Direct mail
Brochures and marketing collateral
Catalog wrappers
Personalized cards
On-demand fulfillment
Variable data document creation
One-to-one marketing
Automated one-to-one web applications
Web-to-print personalized documents

Localization support:

Dutch
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Simplified Chinese
Spanish
Traditional Chinese

Platform support:

Windows
Macintosh

Case studies:

Additional resources:

Please have someone contact me about Objectif Lune VDP solutions.

Pageflex, a division of Bitstream, Inc.

Product names:

Product descriptions:

Pageflex Server with Campaign Manager

Pageflex Server provides a flexible, scalable platform to meet the demands of a broad spectrum of variable data projects, ranging from a wide variety of printed materials — including direct mail, business cards, variable-length brochures, signage, labels, and custom books — to cross-media marketing campaigns that include personalized URLs, web microsites, and HTML e-mail. The Campaign Manager module provides an easy and comprehensive dashboard to track and analyze all aspects of an integrated marketing campaign, providing you with the critical information you need to evaluate your return on marketing investment.

Pageflex Persona Cross Media Suite

Pageflex Persona Cross Media Suite is a desktop application for variable data publishing in print and HTML email formats. Quickly repurpose existing InDesign documents for variable data and Adobe GoLive® and Dreamweaver HTML files for personalized e-mail to achieve increased response rates, improved customer retention, and workflow efficiencies. You never again need to create variable content that is a specific size, shape, or word count because Pageflex patented flexible templates and advanced copyfit settings ensure content fit while protecting your graphic design. The projects you develop today will always be usable with Pageflex server-class products for web-to-print.

Pageflex Storefront

Pageflex Storefront enables any company, regardless of their web development expertise, to easily define, auto-generate, and manage successful web-to-print sites for collateral management, document customization, and e-commerce.

Key VDP applications:

Business cards and stationery
Personalized direct mail
Brochures, flyers, datasheets, and sell sheets
Coupons
Advertisements
Signage
Localized marketing materials
Admissions and membership materials
Event-related materials
Travel itineraries and luggage tags
Custom books

Localization support:

English: Text can be composed and output in more than 60 languages, including Japanese and Chinese. The Pageflex Storefront user interface is available in English, French, German, and Spanish and can be customized for other languages.

Platform support:

Windows

Pageflex has endorsed the PDF/VT format and will feature it in an upcoming product release.

Please have someone contact me about Pageflex VDP solutions.

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Printable Technologies, Inc.

Product names:

FusionPro Desktop
FusionPro Direct, FusionPro Server, FusionPro Live
FusionPro Web
FusionPro Links

Product descriptions:

FusionPro Desktop

The desktop-based VDP choice of thousands of users worldwide, FusionPro Desktop allows the design and output of simple through sophisticated targeted VDP print streams (nine optimized VDP output formats are included) via an Adobe Acrobat® plug-in. InDesign templates or any Adobe PDF file can be imported into FusionPro Desktop to form the basis of the VDP template design. Powerful business logic VDP rules can be created via a simple drag-and-drop interface or through the use of industry-standard JavaScript. As the needs of the service provider grow, so do the options for scaling the VDP workflow — FusionPro Desktop VDP templates can be easily incorporated into any of the other FusionPro VDP solutions to meet precise client needs.

FusionPro Direct, FusionPro Server, FusionPro Live

Printable Technologies server–based VDP solutions allow high speed, high volume, and extreme scalability to meet any VDP need. FusionPro Direct powers internal workflows with tens or hundreds of thousands of data records per job to run multiple presses at full rated speed and can be implemented with absolutely no programming. FusionPro Server provides extreme flexibility to the service provider looking to deploy a custom web-to-print or custom-designed internal VDP workflow automation solution. Finally, FusionPro Live allows FusionPro Desktop templates to be edited in a rich drag-and-drop experience directly from within a web browser plug-in while uniquely maintaining the benefits of an Adobe PDF workflow for VDP.

FusionPro Web

The web-based VDP solution that powers thousands of corporate enterprise client workflows, FusionPro Web supports FusionPro Desktop VDP templates in a powerful on-demand platform that removes the burden of guaranteeing uptime or the need to purchase additional hardware or software for system redundancy and scalability. This hosted solution can be configured to offer branded catalogs of static, versioned, or VDP items and offers a wide range of e-commerce, job tracking, and shipping options to meet the needs of the enterprise. In addition, FusionPro Web includes Adobe PDF JobReady™ technology for ad hoc job submission, payment, and fulfillment.

FusionPro Links

With FusionPro Links, users can create personalized marketing campaigns that directly respond to customer needs, potentially leading to significantly higher response rates. Personalization can be as simple as adding a unique name, or complex enough to include personalized text and images based on customer-specific data and business logic or demographic/psychographic information. In addition, flexible microsite creation functionality allows designers to match corporate and campaign branding precisely, so each microsite has a unique look and feel. FusionPro Links allows users to track both campaign-specific and customer-specific response data. One-to-one tracking of response data from a VDP campaign gives marketers the tools to know which customers replied to a specific campaign and to react appropriately in new campaigns. Customer data gathered through online surveys on the microsite ensures that marketers understand more about their customers and deliver further personalized communications.

Key VDP applications:

On-demand fulfillment
Variable data document creation
Direct mail
One-to-one marketing
PDF file creation for print or the web
One-to-one web applications
Web-to-print personalized document delivery

Localization support:

English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Platform support:

Windows
Macintosh

Case studies:

Prisma Graphic Corporation (PDF, 87K)

Additional resources:

Printable Technologies has endorsed the PDF/VT format and will feature it in an upcoming product release.

Please have someone contact me about Printable Technologies VDP solutions.

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Saepio

Product name:

Agilis Marketing Suite

Product description:

The Agilis Marketing Suite is the perfect resource for customer-focused print service providers. The simple-to-manage software suite provides Internet-based web-to-print technology, market-relevant versioning, digital asset management, direct mail list creation, ad specialties cataloging, and e-commerce capabilities all in one self-creating, consumer-branded storefront. Agilis Marketing Suite is offered as shipped software or as an ASP solution.

Key VDP applications:

Direct mail
Print ad versioning
Dealer locator strip automated assembly
Flexible back-end fulfillment routing
Automated resizing and image cropping
Personalized documents
Automated order entry

Localization support:

Any left-to-right or right-to-left reading language for which a font library exists, including full support for the Unicode character set.

Platform support:

Windows
Macintosh
Linux®

Case studies:

Please have someone contact me about Saepio VDP solutions.

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Sansui Software

Product name:

XPublisha

Product description:

XPublisha is a tool for variable data publishing automation that offers ways to publish different kinds of data — text, graphics, prices, descriptions, and callouts. XPublisha flows XML from data files into placeholders in an InDesign document in a few easy steps. This facilitates the flow of thousands of records into hundreds of pages. For example, you can create a personalized mailer without thousands of records by connecting to any ODBC-compliant database.

InDesign CS plug-ins on Macintosh and Windows
Browser-based utility to connect to any ODBC-compliant database
Define rules to extract content based on a value in a database field; conditional association with image and text files
Powerful Flexifit to define layout rules for any template
Powerful step and repeat
PPML output as an option

Key VDP applications:

Catalogs

Localization support:

English

Platform support:

Windows
Macintosh

Please have someone contact me about Sansui Software VDP solutions.

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XMPie, Inc.

Product names:

XMPie PersonalEffect
XMPie uDirect
XMPie uImage
XMPie uStore
XMPie uChart
XMPie Marketplace

Product descriptions:

XMPie PersonalEffect

XMPie PersonalEffect is powerful, easy-to-use software that unites customer databases and creative content to help print service providers, marketing service firms, and small-to-medium sized businesses and enterprises leverage customer data and create personalized, multiphase campaigns that use today's communication vehicles including print, web, e-mail, and mobile. PersonalEffect offers unparalleled analysis and reporting functionality, allowing users to track, analyze, and refine campaign results in real time, improving overall response rates.

XMPie uDirect

XMPie uDirect helps Adobe InDesign users produce powerfully personalized, visually rich one-to-one communications that get attention and result in higher response rates to direct marketing programs. Documents can be personalized with a combination of text and visuals to improve the overall relevancy of a campaign. The uDirect platform's flexible architecture helps users leverage the full potential of InDesign creative capabilities.

XMPie uImage

XMPie uImage allows Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator users to produce powerful, personalized images and graphics and seamlessly merge them into XMPie variable publishing software to create dynamic print and web-based marketing campaigns.

XMPie uStore

XMPie’s self-contained web-to-print software, uStore, makes it easy for businesses to host e-commerce–enabled web stores and produce one-to-one marketing materials for employees or customers. Users simply log on to branded, uStore-enabled websites, customize templates with personal information, order the number of communication pieces they need, and have the personalized item printed and shipped on demand or e-mailed to the targeted recipient.

XMPie uChart

With XMPie uChart, users can introduce attention-grabbing personalized charts into their variable data marketing campaigns. Users work within their native design environment of InDesign and add tabular information into page layouts as pie, bar, area, or line charts while maintaining full design consistency throughout the campaign. Unique graphical effects such as 3D charts further enhance the impact of variable data communications.

XMPie Marketplace

XMPie Marketplace is an online resource providing XMPie customers with a convenient and cost-effective way to incorporate image personalization into projects. It features an XMPie uStore-based e-commerce website offering a library of creatively designed uImage templates in Photoshop (photo-based) and Illustrator (vector-based) file formats that are available for purchase and download by uImage users. The template files are tagged with ADOR objects for variability and are ready to use in XMPie-based print, e-mail, or web personalization projects.

Key VDP applications:

uDirect and PersonalEffect

One-to-one print campaigns
Direct mail
Brochures
Marketing collateral
Catalog wrappers
Manuals
Personalized books
Personalized cards

PersonalEffect only

Multifaceted, cross-media, one-to-one marketing campaigns
Print-to-web for increasing and tracking responses in these campaigns
Web-to-print publishing
Output to print, the web, e-mail, and mobile devices

Add-on products:

uStore
uImage
uChart

Platform support:

Windows with Intel® processor
Macintosh (Mac OS)

Localization support:

PersonalEffect: English, Japanese
uDirect: English

Download a tutorial of XMPie uDirect (ZIP, 23MB)

Case studies:

Additional resources:

Download these trial software versions of XMPie uDirect:

XMPie is an Adobe InDesign Server partner. The company has endorsed the PDF/VT format and will feature it in an upcoming product release.

Please have someone contact me about XMPie VDP solutions.

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EFI

Product name:

Fiery print production servers and EFI Digital StoreFront

Product description:

The EFI Fiery color digital print server, with more than 14 million users, offers unparalleled color quality, open VDP workflow flexibility, and expert-level tools for graphic arts professionals. EFI collaborates with the leading VDP software vendors and supports such VDP languages as Fiery FreeForm, industry-standard PPML, and a host of legacy proprietary languages, ensuring that the Fiery server readily integrates with existing workflows and delivers consistency regardless of whether the job is VDP or non-VDP. Because the Internet is an easy way for EFI customers to work with their customers on VDP projects, VDP is incorporated into EFI's web-to-print solutions, including Digital StoreFront and the PrinterSite family of products. These integrate with EFI Fiery and Print MIS solutions, creating an efficient, profitable way for EFI customers to handle the increased business VDP makes possible.

EFI also provides services to facilitate a highly successful VDP campaign, including:

Training
Distance learning (web-based classes)
EFI educational services
Consulting
Technical support

Key VDP applications:

EFI Fiery color server platform: Suited for any VDP print production requirements
EFI Digital StoreFront: Enables web-based, template-driven VDP
Atlas PrintShop Mail: Fiery version — client VDP authoring tool
Pageflex Persona: Fiery version — client VDP authoring tool

Localization support:

EFI VDP solutions are available worldwide with language support for:

Brazilian Portuguese
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Spanish

Platform support:

Windows
Macintosh

Case studies:

Additional resources:

EFI VDP overview

EFI is an Adobe PDF Print Engine solution partner.

Please have someone contact me about EFI VDP solutions.

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Kodak NexPress

Product name:

Kodak NexStation front ends

Product description:

Kodak NexStation front ends drive Kodak NexPress digital production color presses, monitor all press functions, and support the more profitable Operator Replaceable Component (ORC) business model. They are designed to meet real-world customer demands for high quality and high productivity in both static and variable information jobs. Built around open standards, Kodak NexStation front ends leverage industry-standard file formats such as Adobe PostScript, PDF, and PPML/VDX. They cater to the wide-ranging production needs of commercial printers, quick printers, and in-plants as well as direct mail houses creating customized one-to-one products.

Key VDP applications:

Direct mail
Customized marketing materials
Personalized collateral
Financial/transactional reports

Localization support:

Kodak offers consultation and training for this software and for the broad variety of new digital workflow and application opportunities, including web-to-print and variable data printing.

Platform support:

Windows: Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 2000
Macintosh: Mac OS X and Classic

Case study:

John Deere case study (PDF, 436K)

Kodak Nexpress is an Adobe PDF Print Engine solution partner.

Please have someone contact me about NexPress VDP solutions.

Kodak Print On-Demand Solutions

Product names:

Creo color server product line

Spire CX250 color server driving the Xerox DocuColor 240/250 digital color printer
Spire CXP3535e color server driving the Xerox DocuColor 3535 printer/copier
Spire CXP50 color server driving the Xerox DocuColor 5000 digital press
Spire CXP5000 color server driving the Xerox DocuColor 5252 digital color press
Spire CXP6000 color server driving the Xerox DocuColor 6060 digital color press
Spire CXP8000 color server driving the Xerox DocuColor 8000 digital color press
Spire color server for iGen3 driving the Xerox iGen3 110 and iGen3 90 digital production presses
HP Indigo production stream server, powered by Creo for the HP Indigo 5000, 3000, and 1000 press series
IC-301 print controller for the Konica Minolta bizhub PRO C500 printer
IC-304 print controller for the Konica Minolta bizhub PRO C6500 printer
PowerPro 500 color server for the IKON CPP 500 printer
PowerPro 650 color server for the IKON CPP 650 printer

Product descriptions:

Print On-Demand Solutions' Creo color servers are the premier color servers for print on-demand professionals. Creo color servers optimize the performance of high-end digital color presses, enabling you to take advantage of all the benefits of color digital printing on-demand. The digital color servers can be configured to suit your needs, whether you are a commercial printer, creative services shop, quick printer, or in-house printer. They are efficient, cost-effective, and flexible and are able to manage your entire print production cycle and meet a variety of workflow requirements. Their superior image quality, high productivity, and robust VDP capabilities make Creo color servers the smart choice for your business.

A leader in the VDP market, Print On-Demand Solutions has created a partnership program that brings together leading vendors of VDP applications. The program provides the broadest array available of market-ready solutions — tested and ready to work with Creo digital color servers for personalized printing.

Key VDP applications:

Mail merge
Customized publications and catalogs
One-to-one marketing
Transaction and financial printing
Direct mailer pieces
Statements
Personalized information kits

Localization support:

Brazilian Portuguese
Dutch
English
European Portuguese
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Turkish

Platform support:

Windows: Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 2000 Professional
Macintosh

Spire can receive files from all platforms

Case study:

CMD Services case study (PDF, 3.2M)

Kodak Print On-Demand Solutions is an Adobe PDF Print Engine solution partner.

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Xerox

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Xerox FreeFlow

Xerox iGen3 110 Digital Production Press

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Xerox FreeFlow software applications create integrated, flexible, cost-effective workflow solutions enabling a vast range of applications and growth opportunities. Designed to help you achieve the right workflow, Xerox FreeFlow applications have the potential to connect you with your customers, reduce your costs, and enable new applications in your business.

The FreeFlow Variable Information Suite is a collection of tools and technologies for producing a full range of variable data jobs ranging from simple personalization to promotional, transactional, and sophisticated one-to-one publishing applications.

Produces optimized variable print streams using the VIPP document composition language, resulting in improved printing productivity
Reduces variable printing production costs and development time
Uniquely supports almost any PostScript output device, including the entire Xerox family of production printers — monochrome, highlight color, and full color

Variable Data Publishing Resource Center

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Solutions for creative professionals

Solutions for print service providers

Solutions for creative professionals

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DirectSmile Online

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xPression

xPresso for Adobe InDesign

xPresso for Dreamweaver

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PatternStream for Adobe InDesign (CS2 and CS3)

PatternStream for Adobe InDesign Server (CS2 and CS3)

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Pageflex Server with Campaign Manager

Pageflex Persona Cross Media Suite

Pageflex Storefront

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FusionPro Desktop

FusionPro Direct, FusionPro Server, FusionPro Live

FusionPro Web

FusionPro Links

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