Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus (100) for printing an article, the apparatus (100) comprising: a data providing device (10) adapted to provide article-specific printing data for the article from product data of the article, and to provide machine-specific printing data for the article in dependence on a printing machine to be used for the printing process; and a control device (20) adapted to merge the article-specific printing data and the machine-specific printing data, and to control the printing machine for printing the article based thereon.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a process for generating neutral data for a product specification, the process being carried out in a computer network and comprising the following process steps: configuring (S1) and providing the product specification; semantizing (S2) product model data for a plurality of different product specifications from a database into semantized product model data, the database providing a plurality of product model data by variant modeling; orchestrating (S3) data processing processes of the product model data into orchestrated data processing processes; and transforming (S4) the semantized product model data by means of the orchestrated data processing processes based on the configured product specification to the neutral data of the product specification.