VARIABLE DATA PRINTING FOR DIRECT MAILING
At Grace Printing in Chicago, our advertising and marketing team can help your company send out 25 to 100,000+ ads simultaneously, customizing each print ad to the individual recipitants to get the maximum return on your investment.  Variable Data Printing can be used to produce full color envelopes and mailers that have target market specific designs or labels on each individual piece. 
Why is this so awesome?
If you have an organized data base of your clients you can mail them sales specials based on buying history research.

We can print all standard sized envelopes up to 13” X 19” stuffing envelopes for that stand out direct mailing presentation package. We can print all sizes of post cards and mailers.

VDP sometime known as Variable Digital Printing or Variable Data Publishing automates the creation of customized materials by merging recurring content from your ad layout with variable data that is specific to a client, market or region. This new and exciting form of direct marketing is an advanced digital publishing system that produces a final piece in which text, graphics, and imagery are individualized to each recipient. This makes addressing bulk mailing a breeze.

With over 20 years of print and marketing experience, Grace Printing is well equipped to help you utilize this exciting new technology.  Our staff will help guide you through submitting your files if you have any questions with the directions below.

Submitting Graphics & Image files for VDP.
1. Convert to CMYK.
2. Scale and crop all images so they have the same size and resolution of 300 dpi.
3. Use short names for images, no more than 15 characters, alphanumeric only.
DO NOT USE spaces, commas, periods, slashes, colons, etc.
4. Save as .pdf file with the images ordered in Adobe Acrobat.  Download Acrobat for FREE here.

Submitting Excel files for variable data printing.
1. The first row should contain header information.
2. Do not use returns in field data.
3. Do not use spaces at the beginning or end of field data.
4. Do not use foreign characters with accent marks.
5. Use a column for each variable image, and enter the EXACT file name, including extension
6. Any overs and samples should be included in database as additional records.

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