Article: Seeking a place for variable-data color: interest is rekindling in this high-value printing process as users pursue specialized market segments and marketing pros are drawn by high response rates. (Technology Report).

True variable-data color, most observers of the digital scene agree, involves database-driven imaging production systems used for highly targeted marketing collateral, complex but effective one-to-one communications projects, and high-value/high-impact work requiring that most every impression vary by content, both text and color artwork Targeted message content, studies show, can boost response rates as high as 30%, dwarfing those of regular direct mail, commonly around 2%.

As such, variable-data color can be very different from other types of printing frequently called "digital": short-run print-on-demand, short-run color printing, most "versioning," laser ...

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