The Fantastic 4 GL - Transcript - Hour 2, Segment 17

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David Lawrence: I don*t you know I am not, I don*t use Publisher that much to be able to know whether or not it has the ability to print over and over again and accept what would be the essence tokens from a database. I don*t think that*s the case. And I could be wrong and there maybe somebody who uses Publisher more often than they use you know in design or something like that and can tell me. I can tell you that most of the time publishing tools are not aimed at printing a lot of a particular item. They are aimed at creating the master that you then take and get printed. So usually Microsoft Word is you can easily import stuff into Microsoft Word and so once you do that you can then take you know just a frame and fill it with the database tokens that you would use in Word first name, last name, add street address, city, state, zip. Even the postal barcode and all that sort of thing and use Word to print your stuff and again you can use Microsoft Excel and merge using mail merge you can do it that way. That would be the most direct approach I would take. Or you could just print twice. You could run your postcards through once to get the publisher to do it. Here is what I recommend. I don*t think it*s a good idea for anybody if you are putting any more than 50 postcards at a time. To spend the time and money on you know an inkjet machine because that*s what you are going to have to do unless you have a color laser to do color on your postcards. I would take them to a quick print shop or to Kinkos or to some place that does them and does them inexpensively. The time involved they are just feeding the postcards and you have got better things to do. You have got homes to show my friend you know.

Paul: Alright and I have got a Xerox 8400/DP.

David Lawrence: Okay well then in that case do the copies and get them done and then feed them in individually and just use Word and do the addressing through Word. Just leave a space open in the design to put the address in and then you know you will run through your printer when you are ready to do your database work.

Paul: Oh I see okay.

David Lawrence: So it makes sense?

Paul: Yes.

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