Variable Data Printing Software
This is sure to turn the heads of anyone who's focussed on print, marketing, and allied professions: The world-leader - EFI - have just released their easy-to-use Variable Data Printing (VDP) solution, Fiery FreeForm Create ... and it's free!
FreeForm Create is a brand new, free, stand-alone visual VDP creation application that’s easy to use and works with all Fiery servers with Fiery FreeForm™ technology.
Quickly and simply personalise existing files for free in an intuitive interface, with no additional VDP software needed. Add variable elements such as text, images, and barcodes to PDFs with just a few clicks.
It’s ideal for applications such as business cards, envelopes, diplomas, calendars, postcards, booklets, direct mail, labels, parking passes, and so much more. And, Fiery server access is not required to use FreeForm Create. This can empower creative professionals and designers to lay out their own personalised files, which can then be provided to a print service provider (PSP) or in-plant print centre for production on a Fiery Driven™ printer.
Features
Two different workflows are available in FreeForm Create:
Variable data workflow:
- Add personalisation to any existing PDF file with just a few clicks.
- Drag and drop interface
- Create source files using your design application of choice (Microsoft Word, Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Excel, etc)
- Variable fields can be text, images, or barcodes
- Change properties of variable fields, including font, size, orientation, colour, alignment, and more
- See a visual preview of each variable data record and filter records by parameters such as the longest or shortest name
File merge workflow
- A visual interface for merging existing master and variable PDF documents together.
- Ideal for existing users of Enhanced FreeForm (through Fiery Command WorkStation Job Properties), who would like to merge their master and variable documents together in a more user-friendly way.
- Create source files using your design application of choice (Microsoft Word, Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Excel, etc.)
- See a visual preview of each variable data record
As the only EFI Platinum Partner in the United Kingdom, Advanced UK knows that EFI fuels success. They develop breakthrough technologies for the manufacturing of signage, packaging, textiles, ceramic tiles, and personalised documents, with a wide range of printers, inks, digital front ends, and a comprehensive business and production workflow suite that transforms and streamlines the entire production process, increasing your competitiveness and boosting productivity.
When you research the marketplace, and you discover such solutions as MarcomCentral® FusionPro®, Objectif Lune, InDesign CC, DesignMerge, Quark and the rest, you realise quickly that there are only two sensible choices: either EFI Fiery or XMPie. Now, the rules have changed, with EFI launching a powerful application for FREE.
At Advanced-UK, we have the pan-European experience to deliver and support the most sophisticated MFP fleets, and we'd be pleased to to help you explore these latest innovations.
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Humperdinck Jackman
Director of Consulting Services
Humperdinck has a 30-year career spanning Document Management Systems (DMS), data protection, Artificial Intelligence, Data Protection and Robotic Process Automation. With many articles published in print internationally, he believes the advances in office technology are such that we're entering the 4th Industrial Revolution. Now Director of Marketing and Consulting Services at Advanced UK, he's as active with clients as he is in endeavouring to write original blog articles.
