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Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PrintShop Mail Connect 1.4.2
- Setup And Configuration
- The Designer
- Mark Position Options
- Additional Text Settings
- Additional Image Settings
- Barcode Options
- Codabar Settings
- Code 128 Settings
- Code 39 Settings
- Additional Datamatrix Settings
- Additional EAN 128 Settings
- Additional EAN 13 Settings
- Additional EAN 8 Settings
- Additional Interleave 2 of 5 Settings
- Additional PDF417 Settings
- Additional QR Code Settings
- Additional UPC A Settings
- Additional UPC E Settings
- Additional OMR Mark Settings
- Keystore
- PDF Signature
- Print Manager
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
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Complex Scripts: Custom scripts with large, complex or non-optimized loops can
lead to slowing down content creation. While it is sometimes difficult to troubleshoot,
there are many resources online to help learn about JavaScript performance and
coding mistakes. Here, here, and here are a few. Note that most resources on the
web are about JavaScript in the browser, but the greatest majority of the tips do,
indeed, apply to scripts in general, wherever they are used.
High-Performance Hardware
The following is suggested when processing speed is important. Before looking into a
Performance Packs to enhance performance, ensure that the below requirements are met.
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A physical, non-virtualized server. ESX and VMWare servers are great for reducing the
numbers of physical machines in your IT space, but they must share the hardware
between each other. While you can create a virtual machine that seems as powerful as a
physical, it will still be sharing hardware with any other virtual machines, and this will
adversely affect performance.
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MySQL Database on a separate machine. MySQL's main possible bottleneck is file I/O,
and as such a high-performance setup will require this server to be on a separate
machine, ideally with a high-performance, low-latency hard drive. A Solid State Drive
(SSD) would be recommended.
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High-Quality 16+ GB Ram. This is especially true when working with many server
instances ("speed units") running in parallel. The more parallel processing, the more
RAM is recommended.
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4 or 8 physical cores. We're not talking Hyper-Threading here, but physical cores.
Hyper-Threading is great with small applications, but the overhead of "switching"
between the virtual cores, and the fact that, well, they're virtual, means the performance is
much lesser on high-power applications such as OL Connect. In short, a dual-core
processor with Hyper-Threading enabled is not equivalent to a quad-core processor.
Installation and Activation
This section provides detailed information about the installation and activation of PrintShop
Mail Connect 1.4.2.
Note
A PDF version of this guide is available for use in offline installations. Click here to
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