2018.2

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Use a high-performance, low-latency hard drive. Connect benefits from fast I/O.
Preferably use a Solid State Drive (SSD) or similar for storage.
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Use at least 8+ GB High-Quality RAM. Check memory usage while the Print command is
being executed to see if you need more than the minimum of 8GB. Assuming that the
Designer needs 1GB each, and that each engine needs 1GB as well, you can roughly
estimate how much memory is needed.
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Consider using a physical machine instead of a virtual machine. When running on a
Virtual Machine, the machine may report that it has sufficient hardware (cores) available,
but in a virtual environment you need to make sure that this hardware is not being shared
with lots of other virtual machines.
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Consider using hardware with more physical cores. PrintShop Mail Connect doesn't limit
the number of Merge engines that is used for a Print job, so if the number of physical
cores is low, it makes sense to see if that can be increased. When running on a virtual
machine, this is usually easy. When running on a physical machine, it means that you
may have to switch hardware.
l For both virtual and non-virtual environments, make sure the machine is not busy with all
kinds of other processes.
System requirements
These are the system requirements for PrintShop Mail Connect 2018.2
Operating system (64-bit only)
l Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Server
l Microsoft Windows 2012/2012 R2 Server
l Microsoft Windows 2016 Server
l Windows 7
l Microsoft Windows 8.1
l Microsoft Windows 10 (Pro and Enterprise versions only)
Note
Windows Vista, Windows 8.0, Windows 2003 Server and earlier versions of Windows are
not supported by PrintShop Mail Connect.
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