7.1

Interaction With PrintShop Mail Design
Receiving Jobs from Print to Web 187
Print Driver Matching 187
Creating Companies And Publication Types 188
Images VS Image Collections 189
This chapter describes how PrintShop Mail Web interacts and integrates with PrintShop Mail Design, the other software of the
PrintShop Mail Suite.
Receiving Jobs from Print to Web
PrintShop Mail Web, on top of being a Web-To-Print solution, is also a print server that can receive jobs from any PrintShop
Mail Design software whether this installation is local or remote. However, there are a few specific points that must be handled
for this integration between Design and Web to be functional.
l Each PrintShop Mail Design user must have a their own username and password defined in PrintShop Mail Web.
l Printers that will receive jobs from PrintShop Mail Web must be accessible from the PrintShop Mail Web server and acti-
vated within PrintShop Mail Web's interface.
l Printshop Mail Design users must have the printer drivers installed on their local machines for every printer they intend
to output to through PrintShopMail Web. It does not matter if the output printer is accessible or not from the Design
machine, only that the driver be present. This is because the page setup and driver settings are set from PrintShopMail
Design but will actually be used from PrintShop Mail Web so they must match.
Once the setup is done properly, you can use the Print to Web feature from PrintShop Mail Design. The Print to Web dialog will
display the URLof the PrintShop Mail Web server, a list of companies on that server and the printers that are installed and acti-
vated on the server. PrintShop Mail Design will send the job to PrintShop Mail Web for processing.
When using Print to Web, you can change the print technology to correspond to the printer you are outputting to. If
you select Adobe PDFor PDF/VT-1 technology, however, the job will not output to a printer, obviously. Instead, the
PDFfile will be available in the Print Jobs, accessible through the Order Manager.
Print Driver Matching
When preparing your PrintShop Mail Design document to be printed through PrintShop Mail Web, it is important to take into
account which printer you have selected to setup your document as well as the one that will be used to finally print out the file.
The main concern is your page setup, including your page size and margins, tray selections, etc. For example, say you
designed your document on white letter-sized paper which has a half-inch margin. The second page (or layout)of your doc-
ument however is printed on blue paper which is called using a tray selection. The printer you selected is from one major man-
ufacturer.
On the PrintShop Mail Web server, this printer is not installed. You are aware of this fact and fully intend to print to a different
one that is not from another manufacturer. This other printer does not have the same tray names and the margins is only a
quarter-inch on the Letter-sized paper.
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