Ricoh N905306 - Manual (Page 5)

General
Database Print Manager Overview
Database Print Manager (DPM) is the variable data printing solution of the DDP
Server printing system. It is designed to be simple to install and operate,
compatible with widely used word processing and database applications, and a
constructive document tool for digital office, production, print for pay and
graphic design users.
Using DPM enables you to personalize documents by performing text and image
substitution. It automatically inserts variable data such as customer names,
addresses, sentences and pictures within documents based on the DPM template.
A template consists of static elements (text, graphics and images), and tags
(«tag») that represent placeholders for variable data. A personalized document
is the result of merging the template and the variable data. These documents
have varying content and static content. This provides for a variable look and
message for each document.
Real world applications that use personalized documents include direct mailings,
brochures, transactional documents such as invoices, tickets and coupons,
handbooks, manuals and any document that requires custom content. Person-
alized documents are important to relationship marketing and other business
communication activities. DPM is a workflow tool designed to enhance output
productivity and be easy to use for any document application.
DPM works together with other DDP Server applications such as e-Forms and
imposition management. You can take personalized documents and add a job
ticket, overlay a company logo or a business address using the e-Forms
capability, or submit a personalized document to a special finishing queue. In
this way, you have the option to leverage other DDP Server features to further
enhance your printing results.
To design templates DPM works with any software application such as
Microsoft Word and Quark QuarkXPress. DPM is currently a Windows only
application.
Prerequisites
DPM runs on Windows 98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows
XP clients. The system RAM requirement is a minimum of 64 MB
(recommended: 128 MB). A printer driver for a DDP Server must be installed.
Before Database Print Manager (DPM) can be used it must be installed at the
user’s client workstation. Also required is Adobe Acrobat 5.0 or 6.0.
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