How would you tackle this VDP situation

[Mega]

We have a situation where we have 100+ pdf booklets that we constantly print individually for orders. We would like to like to add an additional page to the outside and print the shipping label directly on the booklet to save time. The labels can be output from our system in a pdf format and have identifiers on them as a last check to make certain the correct label is being applied to the correct package/booklet.

Using Impose, Jobflow or maybe a script or?, how would you automatically match the label to the booklet, send it to command workstation and print everything at once? All data, booklet SKU, order no., tracking, etc is easily exported from our order management system in CSV (Excel, PDF, etc) format.

Thanks in advance!

 

[loica]

If you have PitStop, it's an easy one. You can "overlay pdf" over the document in a variable way. So every single file passing through the flow would see the label placed onto the page. If you don't have this app, you can give it a try with the trial.
With PitStop Server alone, you would need a job ticket. With Switch and metadata module, it's easy to reconstruct a dynamic path to the label to be placed on the document.

 

[oxburger]

Check out Inspire Designer by Quadient. We used it in a health/billing/prescription environment. Basically, you can set up a file (it's like a pagination software), but you can take a list and based on one column of the list, it can be set up to print the mailing info and then go out and select the appropriate pdf files that go with it and wrap it up in a neat little package. We did a lot of stuff that mailed to different states and it would create personalized letter and a disclaimer based on that state and it would also pull a static 8 page booklet and legal sheets for that state. It's a brilliant suite of software. That being said, I have no idea on cost, but it's probably not cheap. It can also be used to manipulate data (concatenation, change case in type, swap out logos based on company, drop in variable photos. It's like if Fusion Pro turned into the Hulk and then took steroids. Watch this.