Xerox DocuColor 12 Printer with Fiery X12 产品宣传页

This chapter describes some of the special features supported by the Fiery, including:

• Printing variable data documents using FreeForm

™ 

(Fiery XP12 only)

This option is also available for Fiery X12 servers equipped with the optional Fiery 
Advanced Controller Interface kit.

• Printing simulations

• Printing duplex pages

• Scanning images from the copier using Fiery Scan

Variable data printing is typically used for direct-mail advertising or other targeted 
mailings. It involves combining a set of master elements that are common across copies 
of a document with a set of variable elements that change from copy to copy. An 
example is a brochure that greets customers by name and may include other personal 
information about the customer obtained from a marketing database. Background 
elements, illustrations, and text blocks that do not change across copies of the brochure 
comprise the master elements. The customer’s name and other customer-specific 
information comprise the variable elements.

The basic premise of FreeForm variable data printing is that the master-element data 
for the job can be sent to the Fiery and rasterized separately from the variable-element 
data. The master-element data is stored on the Fiery in prerasterized form as a 
FreeForm Master, and can be used as often as needed with multiple sets of variable-
element data. Because the FreeForm Master job is preRIPped and stored on the Fiery, 
the only RIP time required for variable data print jobs is the time needed to RIP the 
variable-element data. In fact, FreeForm Masters can be used for any fixed-element 
data that you might combine with different data from day to day. For example, a 
letterhead template can be stored as a FreeForm Master and used repeatedly as the 
background for different letter content (the variable-element data).

XP

12