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Encoding:
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PrintShop Mail Connect on a non-English operating system. These are due to
encoding issues and will be addressed in a later release.
Network Considerations
The following should be taken into consideration in regards to network settings and
communications
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If a local proxy is configured (in the Internet Explorer Options dialog), the option
Bypass proxy server for local addresses must be checked, or some features
depending on local communication will not work.
Firewall/Port considerations
For Firewall/Port considerations, please see this article in the Knowledge Base: Connect
Firewall/Port Configuration
Performance Considerations
This page is a guide to getting the most performance out of PrintShop Mail Connect as well as
a rough guideline to indicate when it's best to upgrade.
Performance analysis details
In PrintShop Mail Connect, after each print job, a message dialog displays a print job summary
(see "Print Job Summary dialog" on page349). This summary may help you determine how
best to maximize the performance of PrintShop Mail Connect.
If your print jobs are not running at the licensed speed, there may be several ways to improve
the performance. The following guidelines will be helpful in extracting the best performance
from PrintShop Mail Connect.
Note however that it is not guaranteed that the licensed speed can be achieved with any job.
Creating output for templates with very complex scripts or complex graphics resources will take
a certain amount of time, even on high-end hardware.
If your print jobs are running at the licensed speed, then improving performance will require
purchasing either a Performance Pack or upgrading to PlanetPress or PreS Connect (see
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