PPML/VDX File Format Approved as International Standard

designed for use with job ticketing formats such as CIP4's Job Definition Format (JDF) and represents full color page data in a way that is compact, production workflow and printing device independent, and suitable for open exchange.

This ISO standard underscores the importance of open data exchange in expanding acceptance and use of variable data printing. By enabling data authoring systems to create VDP jobs that can target a variety of output devices, PPML/VDX offers content creators and print providers the greatest flexibility in the design, development, exchange and production of variable data documents. Page content creators such as graphic design agencies, for example, could send portions of the same variable data job to several print providers—based on geography or other considerations—with the assurance that output color quality will remain consistent among each run and match the designer's expectations.