Global Graphics updates VDP guide

Global Graphics has published the second edition of its guide to variable data printing updated to include several new international standards published at the end of 2020.

Global Graphics has published the second edition of its guide to variable data printing

The updates include a 2nd edition of the PDF 2.0, a new standard for submitting PDF files for production printing: PDF/X-6, and a new standard for submission of variable data PDF files for printing: PDF/VT-3.

The guide provides information and advice for graphic designers, print buyers, production managers, press operators, owners of PSPs, and developers of digital presses and composition tools. It is edited by Martin Bailey, a technologist at Global Graphics and the primary UK expert to the ISO committees that maintain and develop PDF and PDF/VT.  

The impact of poorly constructed PDF files on production schedules has increased as press resolution, colorant count, speed, and width rise, significantly increasing the data rate required to drive them. This increase in data places additional demands on the processing power of the DFE and risks slowing down the digital press.

‘The main aim of the guide is to provide practical recommendations that help ensure that VDP jobs don’t slow down the print production workflow, without affecting the visual appearance that the brand owner, buyer, or marketeer is trying to achieve,’ commented Bailey.

To download a free copy of Full Speed Ahead: how to make variable data PDF files that won’t slow your digital press go to www.globalgraphics.com/full-speed-ahead