Preparing for Successful VDP
Additionally, you can work with complex calculations in the database applications to calculate someone's age from a birthday or someone's anniversary from the date they got married. Realistically, the creative talents of the people managing the data are the only limit to the options—there are hundreds of complex calculations available on the Web, and you can download scripts (e.g. a mini computer program of the procedural steps put into a loop to remove all of the trailing spaces after the first name).
John Leininger is a professor in the Department of Graphic Communications at Clemson University. He has been at Clemson since 1986. He has taught courses in flexography, lithography, digital printing, inks and substrates, as well as the department’s management class dealing with estimating, planning, equipment purchasing, cost analysis and plant layout. Currently, he is focused on the digital printing and variable data market. Contact him at:ljohn@clemson.edu