Our Partners

 

Meadows has formed an alliance with the Canon Alliance Marketing Program. A workflow that includes DesignMerge® and a Canon CLC® device allows users to quickly and easily create variable data output in Canon digital color. DesignMerge and the PPML driver have been successfully tested for compatibility, and designated by Canon U.S.A. as “Canon Compatible”.

DesignMerge was originally selected by Xeikon as the variable data solution for their CSP line of digital presses. Xeikon now distributes the DesignMerge PPML and PrintStreamer-1/Book Ticket driver to existing DCP and Barco/PrintStreamer customers.

 

Searching for products to print to the Xerox VIPP variable data language, Xerox and DesignMerge formed a partnership in 1998 to create just such an offering. That development continues and today's version of DesignMerge emits not only VIPP code, but offers the end user the choice of VIPP output (hand code, and hands-free code), as well as VPS, PPML, and Optimized PostScript. With DesignMerge, Xerox has a Partner that supports cross-platform VI output to virtually any device in the Xerox portfolio of Production and Office products.

An advocate of the PPML (Personalized Print Mark-up Language) workflow, EFI has given DesignMerge their "Official QA Approval". DesignMerge also supports the FreeForm workflow through the Optimized PostScript driver; the fixed layer is cached, as it is in Freeform, with only the variable layer processed for each record. In addition, the EFI DFE's support Xerox VIPP and Creo VPS, also available through DesignMerge.

 

HP selected DesignMerge as a variable data solution for their 8500 series printers in 1998. Today, the DesignMerge PPML driver in conjunction with HP/Indigo digital presses is a powerful solution for producing full-color variable output.

 

Meadows Publishing Solutions is a full member of PODi (Print On Demand Initiative), a market education and development initiative sponsored by leading vendors in the digital printing market, and responsible for the ongoing development of the PPML specification.

 

Supporting the Creo VPS (Variable Print Specification) language on both Macintosh and Windows platforms, DesignMerge provides a choice of platform for a Creo VI workflow. The Spire DFE also supports Optimized PostScript and Xerox VIPP, making the Spire and DesignMerge a highly flexible solution for variable information output.