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Article: CGATS Drives Big Growth In Personalization Industry With Variable Data Exchange.
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- Printing News
- Article date:
- July 16, 2001
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According to the Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing, and Converting Technologies (NPES) Reston, Va., the American National Standards Institute-accredited Commit-tee for Graphic Arts Technologies Standards (CGATS) has defined an open, variable data exchange standard, making it easier for designers to create and proof variable data jobs, and for commercial printers to produce them. CGATS.20 Graphic technology Variable printing data exchange using PPML and PDF (PPML/VDX), defines a standardized implementation of the PPML specification using PDF-based workflows for exchanging variable printing data.
PPML/VDX builds upon the Adobe Portable Document ...