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l If on a DVD, either insert the DVD and initiate the installation from there or copy the
contents to a folder (keeping the folder structure)
Navigate to the PrintShop Mail_Connect_Setup_x64.exe or and double-click on it. After a short
while the Setup Wizard will appear as a guide through the installation steps.
Note
PrintShop Mail Connect requires prior installation of Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.
Please refer to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21 for more
details on how to install Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, if this is not already done.
Note
If the same version of PrintShop Mail Connect is already installed on the target machine,
you will be presented with options to either Uninstall or Modify the existing instance.
If Modify is selected, the standard installation Wizard sequence will be followed, but with
all options from the existing installation selected.
Selecting the required components
After clicking the Next button, the component selection page appears, where the different
components of PrintShop Mail Connect can be selected for installation. Currently, the following
are available:
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PrintShop Mail Connect Designer: The Designer module (see "The Designer" on
page90) can be installed standalone (with no other installed modules)on as many
machines as you like. It does not require a license to run as a standalone designer tool .
This allows for any number of people to use the Designer for creating jobs, but without
production capabilities such as automation and commingling.
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MySQL Product: A supplied MySQLdatabase used by PrintShop Mail Connect.
The database is used for referencing temporary Connect files and for sorting temporarily
extracted data, and similar.
A pre-existing MySQL or Microsoft SQL server (referred to as an external database, in
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