Practice of Imposition and Illustrator Variable Data Plate Making with Barcode

Variable data printing also called print on demand. There are lots of commercial variable-data-plate making software on the market, those provide adequate function for variable data plate preparing in production, but most of them are either too expensive or binding to an special kind of digital printing machine. For small printing and packaging company,they did not have enough money to buy those,but they all have Adobe Illustrator. Through using Adobe acrobat and Illustrator and open source database management system, you can generate variable data with barcode and layout them in a larger piece of paper. This article is mainly about how to prepare variable data printing plate and the pros and cons of this method.