Variable printing with pictures?

Hi all,
I know Photoshop can handle variables in text format so for example and that you can set a variable to be an image that'll change with alternate images but can Photoshop use a mix of the two to create images with variable fields for text?
Heres some examples:
These have been done in Directsmile (not by me) which after playing with the demo lets you import image sets of all the letters and it then uses those to make up the variable data for each print imported as a CSV file. They're not text with filters applied, they are tiffs with masks:
Now Directsmile obviously does all this, but seeings as Im paying for Photoshop CS6, I wondered if it could handle it?. If not Ill have to focus on Directsmile, even though it is PC only
Thanks in advance
Andy

Ah I see, so could prove more time consuming than it's worth. Might aswell just invest in the software that can do it already then. Bit of a shame.
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