Help printing variable data

Joe from Carlsbad, CA, USA, using PS CS2 with Windows 2000, writes in with:

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We need to automate printing of variable data and would like to do it with Photoshop. Is there a way to automate the printing?
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If you can provide a good answer to this question, then comment below. Thanks for your help!

Comments

[Aaron]

There is a great way to batch print. First you open one.

Open the actions palete and make a new action. name the action somthing like print, or whatever you can remember. the action will start recording when you press OK, then take the normal steps to printing the doccument, selecting all the options that you want. press ok on the print dialog.

Now you can either let that print or stop it after it has finished processing in photoshop. close the window. then stop your action from recording by pressing the stop button in the actions pallete. the action will be saved and you can use it any time.

Here is the cool part about actions, if you want to print a large batch of images, but with different settings, the box just to the left of the action name will turn on or off the dialog box. If you click the box on, the action will open the print dialog, when you press ok it will go on to the next step in the action.

If all the images will be printed with the same settings leave the box empty. now that your action is saved, make sure all the images to be printed are in the same folder, or in a folderr and sub folders, then go to
File > Automate > Batch.

From here you can select your action from the drop down menu. choose your sourse file from the browse button. check both the boxes that say "supress..." for destination choose none, and if you want you can write the errors to a file, that you can choose where it is.

This action will send all the images in that file to the print queue. which can then be printed. good luck.

[Andy]

I think(?) Joe means that he would like to batch Print the data sets from a single file, instead of CS2's only option of exporting data sets as new files. I'm trying to create some numbered gift certificates and would like to achieve the same outcome. I don't need to save a copy of each numbered certificate, all I need to do is print them with a different number...and it would be nice to batch print when you've got more than a few to make (like 50). Anyhoo, I'm sure it could be scripted, but I don't know how to script at the moment.

[Lionel]

Hello how I do to print several images in photoshop?

[Sukhjinder]

I want to know how to print multiple image files at once on different pages with labels.

1. Suppose we have 10 images to print.
2. Each image should be printed on different paper with its label i.e. 10 images on 10 pages.

I want to print all images at once without giving print command 10 times.

Please provide me with the information about how to solve this problem.

[Ossi]

There are many diffirent ways to print variable data with the help of Adobe products. Go to the VDP section at adobe.com to learn more.

Adobe: Variable Data Publishing
http://www.adobe.com/products/vdp/index.html

[Rich Camper]

Error Message reads:
Could not parse the file as a data set. There are too many variables names in the first line of the test files.

Has anyone run in too this error with Photoshop while trying to import data into the data Sets (image /variables/data set/import/select file)
I receive the error above or one the says “ there are too few names in the first line”
I am saving my data for a Excel file to a Txt file ( both DOS and MS txt files) like the directions say… I have tried .cvs files also with no success.

Here is a sample of how I am setting up the txt file. The Layers in Photoshop are set up the same header names.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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