Batch & Print Pro 

Using The Directory Monitor

 

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Getting Started - Setting the Directory

Click on Menubar / Options / Directory Monitor Setup.
the 'Directory Monitoring'  screen will appear like the screen shot below.
Click the Browse button on the right, and select a directory of your choice, any new documents copied to this folder will be automatically printed to your destination printer, the log file keeps track of what has been printed, if a file is updated then it will be printed if the document is of a different size or if the created/modified time stamp has changed, you can turn off this feature by deactivating the "Always check log before print"
Select your printer to print to from that monitored directory.
Browse for a after print move directory if required, note: "Always check log before printing" must be set on if you do not specify a move directory, this is to stop the same document printing over and over again.
Click Overwrite Old or Rename Old, Overwrite old will overwrite when moving the file to the move directory.
Rename Old will check to see if that file exists in the move directory, if not it will move to that filename, otherwise it will check for filename_vn.ext until a slot is found and will move to that filename.
e.g. readme.txt will become readme_v1.txt if in the move directory if readme.txt already exists.
Set the threshold at: is to limit the number of files printed at once, this is usually used when monitoring many directories at once to even the spread.
1. if you specify threshold value >0 and 'No Order' - the scan for files stops when it meets the number of files required.
2. if you specify threshold value >0 and a sort order, it add's all files to the list, sorts, then deletes all > threshold value from the list in ready status so you are left with the threshold value of files as status 'yes'
3. if you specify threshold value 0 then all are added.
note: 2. will take longer than 1. to process.
Transfer Check Delay is for detecting files in currently in transit, when set to 0 Batch & Print Pro will do two quick checks on the filesize of the file to print and will also check whether it has a sharing violation, if the size is different or sharing is true then it will skip the file until next monitor time around.
If the value is 1-10 then at second 0 it will get the filesize, at second e.g. 10 it will get the filesize and compare, if they are different then it will skip this file until next time, if they are the same size it will check for a sharing violation, if false then it will print.
If possible code your PDF Writer or other application to NO SHARE WRITE ONLY so it won't be printed if it's still been written to.

 

 

 

Setting up the default printer.

Click 'Printer' button, the following window will appear.

Select a printer of your choice & Click OK.

then click 'Add to list' button.

 

Click 'Save' when finished.

 

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Last Updated 19/03/2003