PrintShop Mail allows you to automate certain tasks, such as opening and printing documents.
Automation features are no longer sold and are being deprecated. You may continue to use the features, however new dongles are not shipped with these features enabled, and no upgrades are possible with this feature enabled. Automation features are now available by combining PrintShop Mail with the power of PlanetPress Workflow Tools, part of PlanetPress Suite.
When you right click on a PrintShop Mail document file in a Windows Explorer window, you will notice that the menu contains the submenu Print. You can print the document without starting PrintShop Mail, and you can drag a PrintShop Mail document to a specific printer.
More advanced ways of automate the printing process is to use one of the next available features:
Note: To be able to use this feature, you need to activate the automated printing option. See Upgrading PrintShop Mail to learn how to add this feature to your license.
Note:When using automated printing, any errors will be logged in the Autoprint.log file, which usually is located in:
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\PrintShop Mail.
If you have installed .NET Framework 2.0, the errors will be logged in the Event Viewer.
To open the Even Viewer:
Note: Automated printing allows you to print PrintShop Mail documents and PrintShop Mail templates automatically through the Command line or script file . Make sure to use the appropriate extension (<document name>.psmd or <document name>.psmt) in the Command line or in the script file.
PrintShop Mail allows you to automate the printing process to a high extend. Instead of opening a document in PrintShop Mail and selecting the "Print" submenu, the program can be told to monitor a HotFolder and execute print jobs as soon as the necessary files (a PrintShop Mail document and/or a database file) are found there.