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These are the products we offer for variable-data printing & publishing (a.k.a. personalization, 1:1 communications,
mailmerge) — including transactional documents.
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To learn about the various variable-data-printing/publishing
solutions we offer, click on the names of the products in the box above
— or scroll down and read some information that will give you
a general overview before clicking above on a specific product.
Pricing starts at $569.00 USD.
The products listed in the box above
offer a comprehensive set of features for
handling complex typography, variable graphics,
bar codes and 2-D symbols,
conditional processing, data-driven charts and graphs,
output formats for a variety
of printing devices, and much more.
Some of these products are desktop solutions that
are used interactively; others are server-based
solutions that can be used to create an automated,
hands-off variable-data-publishing workflow.
If you need help identifying a product
that is appropriate for your needs and budget,
we can help! We've been working with
variable-data-printing/publishing technology
since 1986. We offer a FREE consulting service
to help you identify the right software for
your technical requirements and budget. Contact us via e-mail at
info@CitationSoftware.com,
or give us a call at 508-436-2543.
Note that we offer other
variable-data-printing products in addition to the products listed on
this page.
We offer free trial versions of most of the software products that we sell.
You can install the free trial software on your computer and experiment with
it to make sure it does what you want before you buy it.
For most of our products, we can also offer you a free on-line meeting (Webinar) during
which one of our representatives will use our Web-based demonstration system to
show you how the software works. To participate
in one of our on-line meetings, all you need is a telephone, a
computer with a Web browser, and an Internet connection. If interested,
please send e-mail to
info@CitationSoftware.com (in your e-mail
message, tell us which product you're interested in) — or you can call us
at 508-436-2543.
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DesignMerge™ Pro
Variable-Data Software for QuarkXPress™ and Adobe® InDesign®
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If you are a QuarkXPress user or Adobe InDesign user, and if you need to do
variable-data printing, then DesignMerge Pro is for you!
DesignMerge Pro is a bundle of QuarkXPress™ XTensions™
or Adobe® InDesign® Plug-Ins
that provide sophisticated features for
variable-data-printing and database-publishing.
To put it another way: DesignMerge Pro makes it possible to
design and produce variable-data documents from within
Quark or InDesign.
This award-winning software
is available for both
Macintosh & Windows computers. It works well with printing
equipment and RIPs from most of the
major manufacturers, including
Xerox, Xeikon, Canon, Creo, EFI, and others.
Our financing program makes it possible
to acquire some versions of DesignMerge Pro
for $0 down and less than $200.00 USD per month.
(Pricing is subject to change without notice.)
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Menu-driven, easy to use
Every aspect of the DesignMerge Pro interface is menu-driven.
To set up your document, use the DesignMerge Pro floating palette
to identify variable-text or variable-picture information in your
QuarkXPress/InDesign document. Then, you select the
database file you wish to use and start the DesignMerge Pro session.
After you've set up your document, DesignMerge Pro quickly
cycles through each record
of the database, populates the variable fields
in your document, and prints the merged results.
If you like, you can do a "preflight"
to check for problems before printing.
You also have the option of saving the merged
documents in a number of different file formats.
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Features include:
- support for variable text (including "text on an angle" and "text on a curve")
- support for variable graphics (images)
- support for copyfitting (automatic management of oversets)
- support for conditional logic
- support for most commonly used bar codes
- support for n-up printing (imposition)
- support for duplex printing
- support for industry-standard print-optimization technologies
- much more.
What are the advantages of using plug-ins for variable-data printing?
There are several advantages to plug-in
technology in the variable-data-printing space. The most
important advantage is that the software can utilize the
two most powerful and popular composition engines in the
world: QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign. All of the composition
features that you have grown accustomed to are fully
supported by DesignMerge Pro. Every aspect of the composition process,
including kerning and letterspacing, hyphenation and justification,
runarounds, multi-page composition, styling, tables, etc.
are all available for you to use. You just take an existing document
and use DesignMerge Pro to "make it variable."
Your variable output will look just like you clicked
File > Print for each individual data record.
Another important advantage to a plug-in approach for
variable-data printing is the ramp-up and production time.
Because the user is allowed to remain in the QuarkXPress or InDesign
application the entire time, there is very little training required.
The user doesn't need to learn a brand-new page-layout tool.
Rather, using the DesignMerge Pro interface, the user can very easily
identify variable elements in an existing document,
start the merge session, and produce variable-data output,
all without having to leave the QuarkXPress or InDesign environment.
This also makes it very easy to effect edits to the document, as
the user can make them immediately — just like he or she is
editing a "normal" QuarkXPress or InDesign document — because
that is exactly what the user is doing!
Pricing
Pricing depends upon your specific requirements. Contact us
at 508-436-2543.
How to purchase DesignMerge Pro
If you'd like to purchase DesignMerge Pro, call us
at 508-436-2543.
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The DirectSmile software lets you do "image personalization."
What is image personalization?
Image personalization is
the ability to add variable text to images, dynamically.
For example: you can write people's names in the sand,
spell people's names with cookies or berries, and emboss
people's names on poker chips! This allows for the design
and production of outstanding direct-mail pieces that
capture the attention of recipients through a combination
of individualization and emotion.
A number of different DirectSmile packages are available —
continue reading below to learn more.
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Use DirectSmile with any variable-data-printing/publishing software
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Some of the DirectSmile packages can be used with virtually any variable-data-printing/publishing
software. For example, if you own the DesignMerge Pro variable-data-printing software,
the documents that you create with DesignMerge Pro can contain
personalized images created by the DirectSmile software.
In addition, special versions of DirectSmile are available for use with the following:
software:
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Features
- You can build image-personalization fonts from your own images.
- You can add light, shadow or motion to make it look real.
- You can use random effects for a truly realistic look.
- You can adapt text to any perspective — it's simple!
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Pricing; free trial versions
Below are descriptions
of the most popular DirectSmile packages, along with buttons that let you download
free trial versions of some of them.
 DirectSmile Creator Pro
DirectSmile Creator Pro lets you design your own personalized-image templates
(also called "sets"),
generate batches of personalized images based on the sets,
and generate a data file that will allow you to incorporate
the personalized images into documents that you create
with your own variable-data-printing software.
For example, you can use DirectSmile Creator Pro in
conjunction with the DesignMerge Pro
variable-data-printing software.
DirectSmile Creator Pro outputs the personalized images as
JPEG, TIFF, or EPS files; it exports
the data file in .txt, .xls (Microsoft Excel), or
XML format.
Pricing: DirectSmile Creator Pro
costs $6,295.00 USD.* This product gives you unlimited use of
the software; that is, you don't need to pay fees for the
personalized images that you generate.
(Pricing is subject to change without notice.)
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DirectSmile VDP Studio
DirectSmile VDP Studio is a variable-data-printing solution that not only lets
you design templates ("sets") for personalized images;
it also lets you use Adobe InDesign to design templates for the variable-data documents
into which the personalized images are to be incorporated.
Features include text personalization, layering, imposition, more.
When purchasing DirectSmile VDP Studio, you'll choose whether you want
to generate PDF output,
PPML output, or
JLYT output.
You need Adobe InDesign in
order to use DirectSmile VDP Studio.
Pricing: A license for unlimited use
costs $9,500.00 USD.* Also available: a Smily License, which
costs $4,795.00.** If you buy the Smily License
instead of buying the license for unlimited use, you then pay for
batches of personalized images (see the Smily Pricing Chart below).
(Pricing is subject to change without notice.)
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DirectSmile VDP Studio Production Edition
Like DirectSmile VDP Studio, above, DirectSmile VDP Studio Production Edition lets you
design templates ("sets") for personalized images and
also lets you use Adobe InDesign to design templates for the
variable-data documents into which the personalized images
will be incorporated. DirectSmile VDP Studio Production Edition
offers all of the features offered in DirectSmile VDP Studio,
and in addition
DirectSmile VDP Studio Production Edition
offers support for VB scripting; support for job automation;
a "Set Scaler" feature for easy resolution scaling;
two Production Rendering Licenses (allows the software to
run on two additional CPU cores); two WorkStation Designer
Licenses; a load-balancing feature that
manages image and document rendering across CPUs and cores;
and built-in support for
PDF output,
PPML output, and
JLYT output.
You need Adobe InDesign in order to
use DirectSmile VDP Studio Production Edition.
Pricing:
A license for unlimited use
costs $33,995.00 USD.* A Smily License is also available
for $14,200.00 USD.** If you buy the Smily License
instead of buying the license for unlimited use, you then pay for
batches of personalized images (see the Smily Pricing Chart below).
(Pricing is subject to change without notice.)
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DirectSmile Add-On for FusionPro
The DirectSmile Add-On for FusionPro
makes it easy to include personalized images in the variable-data
documents you create with FusionPro Direct
or FusionPro Server.
Pricing:
The DirectSmile Add-On for FusionPro costs $2,850.00 USD* plus 20 cents
for each personalized image that is generated.
As an alternative to purchasing the DirectSmile Add-On for FusionPro, you can
purchase DirectSmile Creator Pro.
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DirectSmile Plug-In for PrintShop Mail
The DirectSmile Plug-In for PrintShop Mail
makes it easy to use DirectSmile Creator Pro in conjunction with
the PrintShop Mail variable-data-printing software. You use
DirectSmile Creator Pro to design templates ("sets") for
personalized images; then you use the drag-and-drop DirectSmile Plug-In interface
from within PrintShop Mail Designer to incorporate the personalized images
generated by DirectSmile Creator Pro into documents created by PrintShop Mail.
This product is also known as "DirectSmile Creator Pro for PrintShop Mail."
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Pricing:
A license for unlimited use costs $4,795.00 USD.* A "starter" version
is also available for $879.00 USD*; it allows you to generate
5,000 personalized images.
(Pricing is subject to change without notice.)
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DirectSmile Cross-Media Edition
DirectSmile Cross-Media Edition is a direct-marketing solution that
lets you create Web landing pages for PURLs (Personalized URLs),
send personalized e-mail messages, and track the results.
Of course, since this is a DirectSmile solution, you'll be able to
incorporate personalized images into
your e-mail messages.
Pricing. Pricing depends upon your specific
requirements. Call us at 508-436-2543 to discuss your needs.
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Pricing for Smilys
If you purchase the Smily License for the DirectSmile VDP Studio package,
or if you purchase the Smily License for the DirectSmile VDP Studio Production Edition package,
you'll purchase Smilys as you need them. The chart below
gives the pricing.
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Smily Pricing Chart
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1,000 Smilys
5,000 Smilys
10,000 Smilys
20,000 Smilys
50,000 Smilys
100,000 Smilys
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$99.00
$449.00
$790.00
$1,390.00
$2,990.00
$4,990.00
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We can provide financing for some versions of DirectSmile.
For information about our financing program, click here.
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System requirements
The DirectSmile software runs on Windows computers. Contact us for
details about specific Windows platforms.
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FusionPro
FusionPro is a family of AFFORDABLE software solutions for personalized communication.
This product family includes:
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FusionPro Desktop
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FusionPro Desktop is an easy-to-use Adobe Acrobat plug-in that lets you create
variable-data documents from your desktop. It brings template design,
data-file definition, business logic, and print-stream creation together
in one cross-platform package.
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PDF workflow
FusionPro Desktop works by allowing you to add
personalized text, variable graphics, bar codes,
and data-driven charts & graphs (such as pie charts and bar charts)
to a PDF file. You can use virtually any software to create the PDF file
— for example, Adobe Illustrator or Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress or even
Microsoft Word.
This built-in PDF support is a real time-saver if
you receive master documents from
sources outside your company — for example,
from customers — because you don't have to
re-create the documents in-house.
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Integration with QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign
If you do decide to use Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress ,
you'll be able to take advantage of some extra features.
For example, the formatting you create in Adobe InDesign
or QuarkXPress will be carried over into the PDF file,
and you can use that same formatting in FusionPro Desktop
for variable text.
Note that you are NOT REQUIRED to use InDesign Or Quark.
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Access maximum power at a modest price
FusionPro Desktop is a powerful yet AFFORDABLE variable-data-publishing
solution that's used by thousand of graphic-arts professionals worldwide.
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Features
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PDF Workflow.
Use virtually any application to create your basic design. Save it
in PDF format and you're ready to start using FusionPro Desktop.
Input formats for data.
Accepts a variety of formats, including
flat files (for example, CSV). FusionPro Desktop also accepts an XML-like format called
"tagged text" that allows you to embed formatting information right
inside your data. In addition, FusionPro Desktop lets you connect to your
database via ODBC.
Output formats.
Can generate AFP, PDF, PostScript, PPML/VDX (a.k.a. VDX),
PPML, HP-PPML, VPS, JLYT, VIPP, Digimaster-PostScript.
Business logic.
Create powerful business-logic rules.
You can use FusionPro Desktop's drag-and-drop interface (no programming required),
and you can also write JavaScript code.
Variable-text effects.
Text on a curve; soft drop shadows.
Variable graphics.
Support for many different formats and options.
Bar codes.
Support for many bar-code formats, including the new
U.S. Postal Service Intelligent Mail Bar Code (IMB).
Serialization. Page numbering,
Bates numbering, crash numbering, other serialization tasks.
InDesign and Quark integration.
Includes a plug-in for Adobe InDesign and an XTension for QuarkXPress.
Support for oversets.
Comprehensive support for dealing with content overflow. Features
include copyfitting (automatic sizing of text)
automatic page insertion, and more.
Data-driven charts & graphs.
Dynamic pie charts, bar charts, etc.
International language support.
Unicode functionality allows multilingual variable-data-document composition.
Imposition.
Built-in imposition tool comes with libraries of layout
templates; gang jobs by quantity or optimized groups, across multiple products
and customers.
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System requirements
Windows or Mac (XP, 2003, Vista, or OS 10.4, 10.5), and
Adobe Acrobat 7.0, 8.0, or 9.0.
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Pricing
FusionPro Desktop costs $569.00 USD. A support package
for ten telephone-support incidents costs $200.00 USD.
Purchase of the support package is recommended but not required.
(Pricing is subject to change without notice.)
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Get a free trial version of FusionPro Desktop
If you'd like a free trial version of FusionPro Desktop, call us at 508-436-2543, or send e-mail to
info@CitationSoftware.com.
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FusionPro Direct
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FusionPro Direct allows you to automate your production workflow
without doing any programming.
Ideal for large or complex variable-data jobs, FusionPro Direct can be installed
in minutes.
You utilize FusionPro Direct in conjunction with
FusionPro Desktop (above).
It works like this:
You use FusionPro Desktop's drag-and-drop system to create a
template (layout) for your variable-data job; then you copy
the required files to a hot folder on the server
that's running FusionPro Direct.
Each time you need to use the template to create
variable-data documents, just put a new data file into the
hot folder, and FusionPro Direct will create the file you
need for printing the documents.
FusionPro Direct can automatically e-mail production personnel
when composition is complete and can also put the finished file into a
RIP folder, giving you a completely automated, "hands-off"
production workflow.
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All the features you need!
Because FusionPro Direct utilizes templates (layouts) created in FusionPro Desktop,
FusionPro Direct supports all the features offered by FusionPro Desktop:
- PDF workflow
- business logic
- special text effects
- support for oversets
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- variable graphics
- multilingual document composition
- ten different output formats
- more
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DirectSmile Add-On for image personalization
The optional DirectSmile Add-On provides the ability to incorporate
personalized images into your variable-data documents,
allowing you to get even more creative.
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Pricing
FusionPro Direct costs $2,850.00 USD.*
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FusionPro Server
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FusionPro Server lets you take your one-to-one marketing strategy on line
with Web-enabled personalization functionality that can be integrated
into any Web-server platform through simple HTTP POST commands.
FusionPro Server helps you create and manage large-scale personalized marketing
collateral-programs using the core FusionPro variable-data-publishing
composition engine. FusionPro Server can be integrated with a variety of Web-to-print
solutions and high-volume, hands-off internal variable-data-publishing
composition workflows, generating tens of thousands of document pages
per hour from templates (layouts) created with
FusionPro Desktop (above).
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Web-enabled soft proofing powers instant PDF or JPG/GIF previews.
For on-line versioned or variable documents, users can choose images and
specify content on the Web to be merged into layouts defined by FusionPro Desktop.
Don't wait while your developers catch up to build the technology you need.
Get immediate access to the tools your business requires.
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Scalable and lighting-fast
Create automated VDP composition workflows for internal or distributed environments;
simultaneously compose multiple VDP jobs for unparalleled scalability and
redundancy; and incorporate multiple composition engines into composition
farms to run virtually any size job.
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Features
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API. HTTP POST.
PDF Workflow.
Can utilize design created in virtually any application.
Queuing.
Job queue API to schedule and route composition requests.
Cross-platform font management.
Properly transfer fonts (even from Mac or PC) to the
Windows PC hosting FusionPro Server.
Input formats.
Accepts a variety of formats, including
flat files (for example, CSV). FusionPro Server also accepts an XML-like format called
"tagged text" that allows you to embed formatting information right
inside your data. In addition, FusionPro Server can
connect to your database
via ODBC.
Output formats.
Can generate
AFP, PDF, PostScript, PPML/VDX (a.k.a. VDX),
PPML, HP-PPML, VPS, JLYT, VIPP, Digimaster-PostScript.
Business logic.
You can use on-screen wizards or JavaScript to create
business-logic rules.
International language support.
Unicode functionality allows multilingual variable-data-document composition.
Special text effects.
Text-on a-curve features and soft drop-shadow effects can
be applied to variable text.
Variable graphics.
Support for many different formats and options.
Bar codes.
Support for many bar-code formats, including the new
U.S. Postal Service Intelligent Mail Bar Code (IMB).
Serialization.
Page numbering, Bates numbering, crash numbering, and
other serialization tasks.
Easy integration.
Can be integrated into another solution such as a Web
site that allows users to enter data to be used for
composing documents.
Dynamic generation of images.
JPG or GIF files can be generated automatically.
Support for oversets.
Features include copyfitting (automatic sizing of text)
automatic page insertion, and more.
Imposition.
Libraries of layout templates are built it; gang jobs
by quantity or optimized groups, across multiple products
and customers. Reusable libraries can be managed easily.
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Add-ons
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FusionPro Live.
Browser-based live template design.
Load balancer.
Provides for unlimited scalability.
DirectSmile Add-On.
Allows you to incorporate eye-catching
personalized images
into documents created by FusionPro Server.
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Pricing
Pricing for FusionPro Server depends upon your specific requirements.
Call us at 508-436-2543 to discuss your particular needs.
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FusionPro Links
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FusionPro Links makes personalized direct-marketing programs easy to implement,
manage and document. With the FusionPro Links affordable,
vendor-hosted platform, users of FusionPro Links can create a customized on-line response
experience with personalized URLs (PURLs) and microsites for variable-data publishing
marketing campaigns.
Features include:
- Instant notification of click-throughs and other activities
- Customizable site appearance (branding)
- Comprehensive reporting facilities
- $0.00 cost per URL
- more
Pricing
$945.00 USD.* $0.00 per URL
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The PReS Suite is an enterprise-level, scalable composition solution that handles highly
complex transactional documents, such as invoices and statements, as well
as personalized direct-marketing and event-triggered correspondence
applications. It enables you to create and format a personalized
document or message and then print it or distribute it electronically.
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The PReS Suite includes the powerful PReS composition engine as well
as PReS Designer for document design and modular add-on options to
meet the specific needs of each environment in a flexible and scalable
solution. Within an enterprise environment, PReS can be integrated easily
with existing business processes to provide seamless
document automation with multi-channel output including print, fax,
sms, email, and archiving.
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Intuituve document design
The PReS Designer application
makes designing templates an easy process with
its intuitive graphical user interface. New usability
features include the ability to enter custom
processing via the design interface and the
ability to create and save re-usable objects. After
creating and formatting a group of objects in one
document, the user can save the group as a reusable
object making it available for use in other
documents. The re-usable object retains variable
and formatting definitions as well as layout
positioning data.
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Whitepace Management
PReS templates feature "bands" on the layout
that allow for sophisticated and intelligent sizing of
promotional messages and other personalized
content based on the amount of available space
on the document. Variable elements can also be
deemed either mandatory or optional, enabling the
most effective use of the space available on each
page of every document.
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Web-based nessage management
In environments where business users want
direct management of variable message blocks
within documents, PReS offers scalability for Web
collaboration. PReS templates are uploaded to
the WebDirect server,
where they are managed
interactively in a Web-browser interface. Business
users log in, add and revise content for defined
message blocks, and specify the conditional logic
that defines which message version a particular
recipient will see. Business users can also utilize
extensive collaboration and workflow capabilities
within WebDirect with an integrated, seamless
process to release revised and approved content
to the production center.
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Multi-Channel Output
To meet enterprise requirements or to suit
the preferences of customers, you can configure
the routing, output and delivery methods for any
personalized document. Multi-channel output
options include
For e-mail delivery, PReS can send HTML output
and can send composed documents as e-mail attachments.
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Input formats for data.
Supported input formats are text and .csv.
Microsoft Excel, Access,
XML, binary. PReS can also communicate with
your database via ODBC.
Output formats.
PReS supports all major production-printer output
formats, including: PostScript (Non-optimized and
optimized), PDF, PDF-A, PCL, PPML, VIPP, AFP/
IPDS, IJPDS, XML, and Metacode.
Multi-channel output.
Output options include e-mail, fax, web, and archive.
Variable graphics.
PReS accepts a number of formats for variable graphics.
Business logic.
PReS offers a comprehensive
feature set for applying business logic.
Serialization.
Page numbering, Bates numbering, crash numbering,
other serialization tasks.
Bar codes.
Support for many bar-code formats, including the new
U.S. Postal Service Intelligent Mail Bar Code (IMB).
International language support.
PReS supports the most stringent multilingual requirements.
Data-driven charts & graphs.
Dynamic pie charts, bar charts, etc.
Web-based message management & collaboration.
Web-based tool allows for collaboration
and for frequent and last-minute modifications to documents.
Support for oversets.
Various features allow for managing text overruns.
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Pricing for PReS Suite is dependent upon specific requirements.
To discuss your specific requirements, call us at
508-436-2543.
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PrintShop Mail
PrintShop Mail is a suite of software solutions for creating variable-data documents.
It is offered as a modular system. There are two modules:
PrintShop Mail Design and
PrintShop Mail Web.
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PrintShop Mail Design is a desktop application that's
available for Macintosh computers and Windows computers.
It's an ideal tool for producing variable-data documents from the desktop.
PrintShop Mail Web is an optional multi-user Web edition
that serves
the needs of multiple users, makes it easy to produce
ongoing and repetitive communications, and allows you to host a
Web-print system to enable Web-based ordering of customized documents.
PrintShop Mail Web includes PrintShop Mail Design and works in conjunction
with the Windows version of PrintShop Mail Design.
PrintShop Mail Web is available for Windows only.
Use PrintShop Mail Design to produce variable-data documents from the desktop.
Developed to simplify the production of variable-data-printing jobs,
PrintShop Mail Design is the perfect application for digital-print operations.
PrintShop Mail Design is a stand-alone, desktop application that
allows you to add variable text and variable graphics
to a blank page or to a PDF file or EPS file. Support for PDF and EPS
means you can use virtually any application to
create the basic design for your document. For example, you can use Adobe Illustrator
or Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress or even Microsoft Word. Once you have your PDF or EPS
file, just open it in PrintShop Mail Design and you're ready to use PrintShop Mail Design's
drag-and-drop interface to start laying out your variable-data document.
This will be the PrintShop Mail Web info.
This will be the Related Products info.
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Developed to simplify the production of variable-data-printing jobs,
PrintShop Mail Design is the perfect application for digital-print operations.
PrintShop Mail Design is a stand-alone, desktop application that
allows you to add variable text and variable graphics
to a blank page or to a PDF file or EPS file. Support for PDF and EPS
means you can use virtually any application to
create the basic design for your document. For example, you can use Adobe Illustrator
or Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress or even Microsoft Word. Once you have your PDF or EPS
file, just open it in PrintShop Mail Design and you're ready to use PrintShop Mail Design's
drag-and-drop interface to start laying out your variable-data document.
Built-in PDF support saves time!
PrintShop Mail Design's built-in PDF support is a real time-saver if
you receive documents from
sources outside your company — for example,
from customers — because you don't have to
re-create the documents in-house.
(Note that you are not REQUIRED to start with a PDF file or EPS file when using
PrintShop Mail Design; you can
start with a blank page if you like.)
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PrintShop Mail Design offers a long list of features for designing and producing
variable-data documents, including support for many data-input formats,
support for many output formats, support for a number of graphic formats for
static and variable graphics, support for many kinds of bar codes and 2D symbols
(including the U.S. Postal Service Intelligent Mail Bar Code), options for managing text
oversets, a built-in business-logic wizard, support for a number of foreign languages,
and much more.
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Your data
PrintShop Mail Design supports the following data formats
for your name-and-address list (your input data):
- dBase (.dbf)
- Microsoft FoxPro (.dbf)
- Paradox (.db)
- Microsoft Excel (.xls)
- delimited ASCII (.csv, .txt)
PrintShop Mail Design also supports ODBC, so you can
connect directly to your database system if you want to.
PrintShop Mail Design displays the structure of your
data on the screen for you, right next to a representation
of the document you are creating. You use
PrintShop Mail Design's
drag-and-drop interface
to create links between your data
fields and your document. This is a quick and easy process.
You can use your data as-is
in your documents, as variable text; or you can use PrintShop Mail Design's
conditional-processing features, data-parsing
features, data-formatting features,
and mathematical-calculation features
to instruct PrintShop Mail Desgin to make on-the-fly
decisions about what to include in each unique document.
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Graphics support
For static and variable images, PrintShop Mail supports these
formats:
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BMP
EPS
GIF
ICO
JPEG
PDF
TIFF
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Printer support
PrintShop Mail can print to any printer that has a Windows driver.
However, you'll enjoy faster RIP speeds and faster print speeds if you use a printer that
understands the PostScript language,
particularly if your printer/RIP is capable of processing one of
the following formats:
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Bar Codes
PrintShop Mail has built-in support for many different kinds of
bar codes, including one-dimensional bar codes such as
UPC/EAN, Code 128, Interleaved 2 of 5, POSTNET,
Intelligent Mail (also known as "OneCode" or "4 state"),
and more. PrintShop Mial also lets you print the following types of
2D symbols:
(These are also known as two-dimensional bar codes.)
Foreign languages
PrintShop Mail supports English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, and Arabic.
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Features
Here is a partial list of PrintShop Mail Design's features:
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PDF/EPS workflow.
Supports PDF format and EPS format for master document.
(Also supports blank page as master document.)
Input formats.
Supports several common data formats for
name-and-address data. Also can connect directly
to database system via ODBC.
Output formats.
Prints to any printer with a Windows driver.
Also supports industry-standard print-optimization
technologies that which allow for FAST printing on both B&W and color printers
and digital presses. Also has built-in PDF generator so you can create PDF files
without relying on a PDF-creation tool such as Adobe Distiller.
Graphic formats.
Supports most common graphic formats for static
and variable graphics.
Business logic.
Built-in language for business logic if/then processing, string parsing,
mathematical calculations, more.
Oversets.
Can handle text oversets by re-sizing text automatically
to fit designated area and/or by flowing text automatically from one area
to another area.
Serialization.
Supports page numbering, Bates numbering, crash numbering, other serialization tasks.
Bar codes.
Supports most common one-dimensional bar codes: USPS POSTNET,
USPS Intelligent Mail, Code 3 of 9, Code 128, UPC, others.
2D symbols.
Supports Datamatrix, MaxiCode, and PDF417 two-dimensional
bar codes/symbols.
Imposition.
Supports layout repetition (n-up) with optional stack sorting.
International languages.
Supports English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Arabic.
Image personalization.
Optional DirectSmile
plug-in lets you do image personalization.
Multi-user support and Web-to-print.
Optional PrintShop Mail Web module
supports multiple users in a LAN environment and also provides a Web
interface for ordering customized documents.
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Pricing
Two different PrintShop Mail Design packages are available:
- PrintShop Mail Starter
- PrintShop Mail Production
PrintShop Mail Starter allows you to print 100,000 documents. It costs $879.00 USD.*
PrintShop Mail Production allows you to print an unlimited number of documents. It costs
$4,795.00 USD.*
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PrintShop Mail Web is an extension to the
PrintShop Mail Design
module. PrintShop Mail Web supports multi-user printing from PrintShop Mail Design, and it also
provides a Web interface for automating and managing document templates.
It's the ideal solution for a business that has remote workers or offices — typically
retail outlets, franchises and dealerships.
PrintShop Mail Web is a great solution for organizations where
multiple users need to create and/or manage document templates and
produce documents based on those templates.
PrintShop Mail Web is also a full-featured Web-to-print
system that allows real-time, 24/7 on-line modification, ordering and production of
1) promotional and personalized documents created with PrintShop Mail Design,
2) static PDF files.
The user perspective
A user can upload an image for local personalization and modify the text based
on pre-defined variable fields. Once the document is ready, the user validates
and preflights the print run and initiates the ordering process. With
permissions and access rights that can be set per user, PrintShop Mail Web
allows companies to adapt the verification process of submitted documents
based on their business rules.
Affordable! Simple pricing model!
PrintShop Mail Web is probably the most affordable self-hosted Web-to-print
system available today. And, with PrintShop Mail Web there are no monthly fees,
transaction fees, or order-management fees. You can even set up multiple
sites within the same PrintShop Mail Web system, each with its own look and feel
(branding) and its own URL, without paying additional money.
You get all this for one low price. You'll know exactly what
your costs are going to be.
You get versioning PLUS variable-data printing!
Unlike many Web-to-print systems, PrintShop Mail Web not only allows a user to enter text
and provide graphics for customizing a document template, it also lets a user upload a
data file that can be used to populate fields in the template. And these two features
aren't mutually exclusive — a user can do both things when working with a
particular template.
Branding is under YOUR control
Using the industry-standard technologies HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP,
you can control how the on-line user interface looks.
You can have several or even many differently branded PrintShop Mail Web subsystems,
each with its own unique URL, all
running on the same server. For example, you can set up a different URL and
different branding for each of
your customers.
There is no extra cost for this!
Features for presenting pricing on line
Comprehensive and versatile features for managing pricing information give you
a great deal of control over the on-line presentment of pricing information
and related information. For example, you can dictate whether the user can
enter a user-definable quantity or whether the user must pick a quantity from a
predefined list or whether the uploaded database
determines the quantity.
Provisions for integration
Need to integrate PrintShop Mail Web into your existing
production environment? No problem — your programmers can utilize PrintShop Mail Web's
simple MIS Connector Framework to accomplish this. The MIS Connector Framework is based on
the industry-standard technologies XML and HTTP.
A typical use of PrintShop Mail Web's integration facility involves automating
communication of order status to an order-management system you're already using.
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Features
In terms of document content, PrintShop Mail Web supports virtually all the
features supported by PrintShop Mail Design.
The list below gives an overview of the operational features of the PrintShop Mail Web system.
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Multi-user access.
Offers multi-user access to PrintShop Mail Design.
(This feature replaces the PrintShop Mail Multi-User Network Edition,
which has been discontinued.)
From static to fully personalized.
Supports static, versioned, and fully personalized print runs.
Browser-based interface.
Intuitive and brandable interface.
Simple to use.
Easy image and database upload and form-filling.
International languages.
Multi-lingual interface based on user preferences.
Preview, validation.
Instant preview and validation of print run.
Permissions.
Configuration of user access and permissions allows
control over documents and ordering process.
EXAMPLE: You can set things up so particular
users see some document templates but not others.
Integration.
Simple-to-use XML/HTTP-based integration facility.
Pricing controls.
Flexible pricing architecture and support for print quotes.
eCommerce.
Optional B2C and Payment Module so you can accept payment
on line from users.
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Add-ons
remember DirectSmile, PlanetPress Watch, also PSW is really an add-on? also credit-card module...
DirectSmile Plug-In for image personalization
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The DirectSmile Plug-In for PrintShop Mail
makes it easy to incorporate personalized images
into documents created
by PrintShop Mail. The plug-in lets you use the DirectSmile Creator Pro
software to design templates ("sets") for
personalized images; then you use the drag-and-drop DirectSmile Plug-In interface
from within PrintShop Mail to incorporate the personalized images
generated by DirectSmile Creator Pro into documents created by PrintShop Mail.
Pricing. Pricing starts at $879.00 USD.*
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We offer financing!
We can provide financing for some versions of PrintShop Mail.
To learn about our financing program, click here,
or call us at 508-436-2543.
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PlanetPress
PlanetPress is a powerful variable-data-printing
solution that works with virtually any PostScript printer. It's great for
creating "transactional documents" such as invoices
and statements. You can also use it to generate promotional
documents such as customized brochures and direct-mail pieces.
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The PlanetPress Design Tool is an integral part of the PlanetPress solution.
The PlanetPress Design Tool runs on a Windows computer and provides a
point-and-click Graphical User Interface (GUI)
for laying out your documents and specifying how the data in your database is to
be used in your documents.
PlanetPress provides an easy way to incorporate data-driven charts and graphs
into your documents. This feature allows you to create documents that
include bar charts, pie charts, and
line graphs that represent data in your database.
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PlanetPress works differently than most other variable-data-printing
solutions in that — with PlanetPress — all of the work of merging
data with templates happens inside your printer or RIP.
Because of this, PlanetPress can print documents faster than some other
variable-data-printing solutions, in many cases.
Features
Here is a partial list of the features that PlanetPress supports:
- Allows for printing anywhere on the corporate network.
- Application data remains separate from formatting information, eliminating the need to do
conversions for legacy applications.
- PC-based WYSIWYG design tool with conventional desktop-publishing
capabilities makes it easy to design documents.
- Creates multiple copies of data to be placed on multi-part forms
and allows you to apply different
formats to each part.
- Provides extensive support for bar codes.
- Supports scanned images for logos, signatures, and other graphics.
- Provides on-screen preview.
- Offers optional image capability for output — the data stream
can be converted to an industry-standard
image format and can be indexed to facilitate retrieval.
- Offers optional fax-output capability.
- Offers optional e-mail-output capability.
- Prints multiple logical pages of data on one physical page (n-up printing).
- Prints multiple collated copies (requires hard disk on printer).
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Printer support
To print the documents you create with PlanetPress, you can use any printer that
understands the PostScript language.
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Pricing
Pricing for PlanetPress depends upon your specific needs. Contact us for a price quote.
We can provide financing for some versions of PlanetPress.
To learn about our financing program, click here,
or call us at 508-436-2543.
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NEWLEAF
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NEWLEAF is easy-to-use, WYSIWYG variable-data-printing
software. It is suitable
for producing graphic-intensive, personalized/customized
documents such as
direct-marketing postcards and brochures, etc.; and
it also works well for text-intensive documents such
as fund-raising letters and collection letters.
Designed to provide a working environment familiar to
Microsoft Office users, NEWLEAF enables your
staff to generate professional-quality variable-data
documents quickly and easily.
Text, graphics, tables, bar codes, and hyperlinks can be
inserted and placed anywhere in the document, at any
orientation. All objects can depend on a condition and
database variable (conditional processing).
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NEWLEAF has two features that set it apart from
most similarly priced variable-data-printing solutions:
- It has a "chart wizard" that makes it
easy to create pie charts, line graphs, etc. that
represent data in your database.
- It is designed to do high-speed production
on many different kinds of printers, including
printers used in graphic-arts environments as
well as printers typically not found in graphic-arts
environments. The list of supported printer types includes
PostScript printers,
PCL printers,
AFPDS printers,
IJPDS printers,
and more. (Click here for a complete list of
supported output formats.)
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NEWLEAF's easy-to-use Data Source Wizard lets you
attach dynamic data using regular data files (e.g., CSV files),
ODBC sources, XML sources, and universal data links. Data
fields can then be inserted with a simple mouse click.
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Features
- Insert document text and format it using standard
formatting tools (similar to Microsoft Office formatting tools).
- Define conditions to determine the content of variable
data in the document (programming skills are not required).
- Import and size any number of graphics.
- Create tables containing dynamic cells.
- Define and insert bar codes using a data field for
dynamic values.
- Page numbering, Bates numbering, crash numbering, and
other serialization tasks.
- Save elements of the document in standard blocks
for re-use in other documents.
- Suppress unwanted whitespace in a situation
where a data field is empty.
- Filter records to print only certain documents.
- Use backgrounds (e.g. scanned documents) to help
position text & graphics on pre-printed forms.
- Import RTF files.
- Create transactional documents based on multiple records.
- Insert textblocks from databases.
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Supported print functions
NEWLEAF supports these print functions:
- n-up
- duplex
- tray control
- OMR (post-processing)
Supported output formats
NEWLEAF supports these output formats:
- AFPDS
- ePOST
- Fiery FreeForm
- GDI
- IJPDS
- Intellicash
- IPDS (via TCP/IP, SCSI or channel port)
- PCL
- PDF
- PostScript
- PPML
- VDX (PPML/VDX)
- VPS
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Output to fax and e-mail
In addition to generating the output formats listed above,
NEWLEAF can also output to fax and e-mail.
Pricing
Pricing for NEWLEAF depends upon specific requirements.
Contact us for a price quote.
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Didn't find exactly what you need? Not sure exactly what you need?
Contact us by phone at 508-436-2543, or send e-mail to
info@CitationSoftware.com.
We can help you find appropriate software for your requirements.
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