2020.2

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). This summary may help you determine how best to maximize
the performance of PrintShop Mail Connect.
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 1,000 PPM 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 "Engines preferences" on page83 for
how to do this.
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. For advice on how to optimize a template
see: "Optimizing a template" on page982.
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