Variable Data Printing Get Started!

Variable data template: the computer file of the "shell" page of a final, printed product. It includes all unchanging information, and the copyholes for variable data.

Getting Started

A variable data job has three new ingredients to consider.

• Data: First is the database report, in the form of an Excel spreadsheet or a delimited text file. Some prior discussion has hopefully taken place to match the data fields in the database report to the requirements of the copyholes in the variable data template.