Digital Print Forums > Which DFE for our type work?

swdirect

Jun 25 2006, 10:15 PM

We have been using a Fiery 6000 frontend with a Xerox 2060. On our monochrome Xerox 4635 we are able to use background forms with a reference in Postscript at the beginning of each page. There is no limit (as far as I know) as to the number of forms used on one page. This is made possible by using the "Decomposition Service" on the Xerox LPS/NPS frontend. On the Fiery, you can only use one "Master" as a background form.

Does anyone have any experience with any of the frontends for the Xerox 2060 or 6060 where they have been able to reference the background form in their variable data stream? Is there some way with the Fiery that we can bypass the one "Master" limit? Does the DocuSP have the ability to "decompose" forms like the LPS/NPS? What about Creo, does it allow for using more than one background form at a time?

The type of work we do requires us to be able to print different letter versions with different signatures (and positions of signatures) as well as different logos on the letterhead; therefore, we would like to be able to print the logos, signatures and letter text as separate forms to the RIP, pre-rip them and be able to "call" them when we merge our variable data depending on the information in our database fields. I don't understand why the new technology can't do what 10 year old technology is able to do :-(

Any ideas?

Kevin

patrick

Jun 26 2006, 04:03 AM

VIPP or PPML have been written to support this exact function. As well as VPS from CREO.

I suggest you work with your local Xerox analyst to come up with the best solution. You could easily do what you are wanting using VIPP and a few lines of code. PPML would be a bit more complex and VPS usually needs an emitter like Darwin but could be done as well.

elmo3

Jul 7 2006, 05:14 AM

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We have been using a Fiery 6000 frontend with a Xerox 2060. On our monochrome Xerox 4635 we are able to use background forms with a reference in Postscript at the beginning of each page. There is no limit (as far as I know) as to the number of forms used on one page. This is made possible by using the "Decomposition Service" on the Xerox LPS/NPS frontend. On the Fiery, you can only use one "Master" as a background form.

Does anyone have any experience with any of the frontends for the Xerox 2060 or 6060 where they have been able to reference the background form in their variable data stream? Is there some way with the Fiery that we can bypass the one "Master" limit?

your Fiery has FreeForm 2 included, which does exactly what you ask; using it requires that you use PrintShop Mail as the emitter with a FreeForm 2 plugin.

rugby148

Jul 7 2006, 06:24 AM

sure, the fiery has freeform 2, but who cares. in most cases it is no better than well optimized postscript or pdf.

on the creo, vps is an option (which is pretty cool).

on the creo or docusp, vipp is an option (also cool, but expensive).

patrick

Jul 7 2006, 07:25 AM

VIPP is also an option on the EFI DFE's for Xerox