Ricoh N905306 - Manual (Page 24)

Term/Abbreviation Explanation
Variable data printing (VDP) Printing a template document in combination with a database. A template is
a document with placeholders (tags). During VDP, the tags are replaced with
values from the database.
A database consists of records (e.g. for John Smith, Alan Miller etc.) and
columns (e.g. FirstName, LastName). During VDP, the template is
combined with each database record to produce an instance document. In the
instance document, each placeholder is replaced with the value of the
corresponding column. E.g. FirstName is replaced successively with John,
Alan etc.
VDP Variable data printing
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