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InDesign Mass Mialing Question

Oct 26, 2010 8:25 AM

If I design a formin InDesign (CS4) and want to put different addressses (and other info) think a postcard/self mailer with subscription expiration dates or somethgn likethat, can this be done wiht information that is on a mainframe computer database? Not sure if I worded that correclty, but basically I want to do a mial merge off a main frame into a form I deisgn in InDesign. I'd like to do this onto a Docutech that runs high volumn. Thank you.

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1. Andrew Barrington,

Oct 26, 2010 8:27 AM in reply to Brenda VT Labor

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You can use Data Merge, to do this.

take a look at this link

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/indesign/articles/indcs2at_datamerge .html

Andy barrington
www.barringtonprint.com

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2. Brenda VT Labor,

Oct 26, 2010 8:54 AM in reply to Andrew Barrington

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Good Info. Thank you.,

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3. Peter Spier,

Oct 26, 2010 1:03 PM in reply to Brenda VT Labor

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Data Merge will do it, but it's EXREMELY inefficient for high volume work like you describe -- you end up with a document with one page for every address, and each one needs to be processed before it's printed. A true VDP solution for the Docutech will allow you to enter the ID file as a template once and merge the address data in the print stream. You may already have that capability...

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