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2013-09-23

Print To Web

Print to Web allows you to print PrintShop Mail documents to PrintShop Mail Web. The output will be generated on the PrintShop Mail Web server, not on the computer where the PrintShop Mail document is created.

There are a few specific points that must be handled for this integration between Design and Web to be functional:

• It is strongly recommended that the Operating System be the same on the server and all client machines.
• It is recommended not to mix 32 and 64 bit versions of the operating systems and drivers (x86 and x64).
• Each PrintShop Mail Design user must have a their own username and password defined in PrintShop Mail Web.
• Printers that will receive jobs from PrintShop Mail Web must be accessible from the PrintShop Mail Web server and activated within PrintShop Mail Web's interface.
• Printer names must be the same across all machines that share PrintShop Mail documents, as well as the server.
• Printshop Mail Design users must have the printer drivers installed on their local machines for every printer they intend to output to through PrintShop Mail Web. It does not matter if the output printer is accessible or not from the Design machine, only that the driver be present. This is because the page setup and driver settings are set from PrintShop Mail Design but will actually be used from PrintShop Mail Web so they must match.

From the File menu, select Print to Web…

The following options are displayed in the Print to Web dialog:

• Destination Group
  • Server address (read-only): Displays the server configured in the PrintShop Mail preferences. See PrintShop Web Preferences.
  • Company: This option list the available Companies. PrintShop Mail will store the last selected company with the document.
  • Remote Printer: This option list the available printers installed on the PrintShop Mail Web server. If no printers are installed, the combo box will show “No printers available” and the print button will not be enabled.
  • Print to File: This option will generate a print file when creating output, instead of actually printing. The file will be saved in the default PrintShop Mail Web Output folder.
• Print Group: 
  
  • All Records: By default "All Records" is selected. This option allows you to print the complete job. Behind this selection the amount of available records is displayed.
    
  • Record Range: This option allows you to print a certain range of records. If the range of records you wish to print exceeds the number of records available, a message will be displayed until the amount of records is equal or less than the total amount of records available.
    
  • Split job: This option allows you to split the job per record or per page in several outputs. Print speed will be improved when using limited job sizes.
    
• Print Technology: Use this option to select a specific print technology that is compatible with your printer. To select a print technology, simply click on the name of the currently selected print technology, and click the one you want in the drop-down. For more details on Print Technologies, see Print Technologies. Here are the options available in the Print Technology group:
  • Use OPI, don't spool images: Most print technologies support OPI (Open Prepress Interface), allowing you to use an image substitution server to speed up the printing process. OPI only supports EPS and TIFF image formats.
  • Store forms on printer's hard disk: Storing PostScript forms (cached reusable content) on hard disk will prevent out of memory conditions if your document contains large high resolution images. Only use this option if your RIP has access to a hard disk.
  • Custom cache size: Increasing the PostScript form cache size can help to improve performance. You may want to experiment in order to determine the optimum value. Specifying a custom cache size only works if the system settings of your RIP are not password protected.
  • PDF Settings (Adobe PDF and Adobe PDF/VT1 only): Click on the drop-down to view the available job option profiles found on the system, and click one to apply it to the PDF output. The job option profiles are related to PDF quality settings and can only be created, managed or deleted through Adobe Distiller. For more information on job options, please see the Adobe Distiller documentation.

Save Print Options: This option allows you to store specific print options with the PrintShop Mail document.

Print: When printing  the document  and its related files will be sent to PrintShop Mail Web print queue.