PRINTSHOP MAIL Category Characteristics

– One-to-one marketing– TransPromo– Integration into printing workflows– Integration with layout application

Variable Data Printing

Using personalisation for applications like direct mail, invitations, tickets, postcards, calendars, business cards, ver-sioned brochures, and customised communications helps businesses increase response rates and capture new cus-tomers. Commercial printers as well as print and service providers wanting to produce such professional, personalised one-to-one documents cannot pass the PrintShop Mail Suite by.

VERSIONING & PERSONALISATIONMADE A BREEZE

As a powerful VDP solution, PrintShop Mail makes pro-ducing any versioned or personalised marketing piece a breeze. This flexible VDP application is available as a mo-dular solution comprising an initial desktop edition for the straightforward creation of materials with variable content, plus an optional multi-user web version to produce and manage ongoing and repetitive communications.

Commercial printers, print service providers and users from the creative sector will appreciate PrintShop Mail’s comprehensive one-to-one marketing tools, including wizard support to create expressions and business rules; a clearly structured, intuitive user interface for design and publishing that makes creating personalised jobs child’s play; as well as powerful production features like impositi-on, page picking, subset finishing. Users also benefit from the complete integration of PrintShop Mail into their printing workflows; easy barcode generation and a free barcode library.

DATASHEET PRINTSHOP MAIL

KEY FEATURES One-to-one marketing

– Personalised printing with clear and simple opera-

tion: Targets anyone without expert knowledge as it re-quires no special graphic design knowledge. With simple drag-and-drop of elements from the database into the layout, a connection from the database to the document is automatically created and offers instant preview and check features.

– Barcode printing: PrintShop Mail has an extensive integrated barcode library, including QR codes, USPS, Datamatrix; Unicode and double-Byte characters are also supported.

– Customer designs: Incorporating VDP assembly tech-nology, PrintShop Mail Design removes the need to use plug-ins to graphic design tools. Users can simply take pre-designed PDF or EPS files and overlay variable data and images with easy drag-and-drop operation.

Integration into printing workfl ows – Design features: Enables the use of any database

and any design. Completely application-independent, PrintShop Mail allows the use of any existing design and database format, such as PDF, Word, EPS, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, WMF, GIF.

– Support of device-specific settings: These include dynamic tray pulling, (subset) finishing, scripting (i.e. for crash numbering), and dynamic imposition.

– Fast print process: Ensuring considerably reduced network traffic, the variable parts of the print job are continuously transmitted to the printer after the static part of the job has been sent just once.

ANY MAJOR RIP TECHNOLOGIESANY DATABASE

ANY LAYOUT

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Graphic elements

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONSSYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Operating systems Windows 2000 (32) Windows XP (32/64) Windows Vista (32/64) Windows 7 (32/64) Windows 2003 Server (32/64) Windows 2008 Server (32/64) Memory 2 GB Hard disk space 80 GBCPU Pentium 4, 3 GHzSupported database Dbase (.dbf), MS Access (.mdb), MS FoxPro (.dbf), Delimitedformats (Windows) ASCII (.txt, .csv), Paradox (.d), ODBC (SQL, etc.), MS Excel (.xls)Input formats PDF, Word, EPS, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, WMF, GIFOutput formats Optimized PostScript, PPML, PPML/VDX, PDF, VIPP, PDF/VT, VPSSupported languages English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese,for user interface Korean, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, TurkishSupported MFPs All MFPs supporting one of the following: Optimized PostScript, PPML, PPML/VDX, PDF, VIPP, PDF/VT, VPSImportant For production servers it is advisable to invest in recommendation specific server hardware, such as large RAID hard disks, UPS (uninterrupted power supply) and enough RAM memory as well as an Intel or AMD dual-core processor

The support and availability of the listed specifications and functionalities varies depending on operating systems, applications and network protocols as well as network and system configurations.