Mail merge

[Jeff]

I have created a 19.2 mb 8 page newsletter. I want Kinkos
to print it so that each newsletter copy is printed with
an addressee on the front page. That means I have to do a
mail merge. When I select "print to Kinkos file prep tool"
it takes about 1 minute per copy and I have 300 addressees
to mail to. That means 5 hours and probably will run out
of memory or so says Kinkos pro.
Kinkos says that I can also just take the mail list which
is an MDB file and send it to them as a PDF file which I
don't think can be done.
Anyone out there who has been through this?
Thanks,
Jeff B

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Get Kinko to do the printing, then run the merge through your own printer.

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[McCabe's Minuteman]

Mail merge is painfully slow and far too bulky for portability. You are
storing the print stream for each and every copy. That is a HUGE file. Find
someone who can handle native Pub files. Look up Publisher Preferred Service
Providers on the Microsoft site. There are lots of us around. Even handling
native files, I run and merge ONLY the cover sheet first. Then I run the
remainder of the publication, adding the mail merge sheet as a preprinted
cover. MUCH faster and less overhead.