2018.1

With no Performance Pack, PrintShop Mail Connect's Weaver engine can generate output at
250 ppm (pages, or emails) per minute) for Subscription licence, or 1000ppm for Perpetual
licence. Additional Performance Packs increase this quota.
If your print jobs are not running at the licensed speed, there may be several ways to improve
the performance, as described below. 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
Performance Packs). For advice please contact your local sales office (see Objectif Lune's
Contact page).
Engine configuration
A Merge engine merges the template and the data to create Email output, or to create an
intermediary file for Printed output. The intermediary file is in turn used by a Weaver engine to
prepare the Print output.
Configuring these engines to match the hardware configuration is probably the fastest and most
effective way to improve Connect's performance. See "Engine configuration" on page25.
l
Number of Merge engines. When first installed, PrintShop Mail Connect is configured to
use 1 Merge engine. A Merge engine will run mostly single-threaded. To benefit from
modern multi-core systems it is recommended to run several Merge engines in parallel.
See "Number of Merge engines" on page26.
l
Job size limits. PrintShop Mail Connect lets you define job sizes by setting the maximum
number of records in a small job, and the minimum number of records in a large job. Jobs
that are neither small nor large are medium sized. Job size limits could have an impact on
performance. See "Job size limits" on page27.
l
Memory per engine. To make optimum use of the machine's capabilities it might be
useful to increase the amount of memory that an engine can use. See "Memory per
engine" on the previous page.
Template optimization
When you find that the speed per Merge engine - the Content Creation speed - is low,
optimizing a template can make a huge difference. Here are some ways to optimize a template:
Page 29