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The concept of hot folders in print
locations
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is to allow the routing of specific jobs
or output files.
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In this tutorial, I will review
the steps taken within the Infigo software
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to create and manage the behavior of
your hot folders and your print locations.
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So a print location, by definition,
should be thought
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of as a separate location
where production happens.
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So hot folders then created
and assigned to a print location
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so that you can manage
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what folders jobs will then be pushed into
for that specific print location.
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You can create a number of print locations
for any particular storefront,
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and within the print location
you can create many hot
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folders
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all Infigo
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storefronts are linked to one platform
wide print location to begin with
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a print
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location stores all hot folders
and allows the printer to define
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a specific download locations for each job
based on mapping criteria.
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The hot folders are then
replicate on an administrator's
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local machine
and integrated into the print workflow.
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So in position pre press for example,
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each mapping criteria is created
to automatically assign
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the job to a hot folder
when it is ordered.
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So that's our general overview of it
and I will go into more details
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of how we actually implement this.
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So the first thing we need to do
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is to actually choose
where to create our new print location.
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The easiest way to decide
where you should create your print
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location is to consider
which storefront or storefronts you want.
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This to accept outputs from.
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If you would like your Infigo
sync instance to download
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from just one storefront,
then it makes sense to create
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the print location
on that particular storefront.
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However, if you'd like your Infigo
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sync instance to download the outputs
from all of your storefronts,
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then you would need to create your print
location on the platform level itself.
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So to begin, make sure that you're
either logged in as the platform
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or an individual storefront administrator
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on the location where you would actually
want this print location to reside.
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So for example, here
I'm logged into one of my platforms
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and I've got access
to one particular storefront
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will navigate to configuration.
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And then within the configuration settings
I have hot folders
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and print locations.
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Now what you'll see by default here
is that there is an existing
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digital print location.
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This is a default print location
which is present on the platform
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and you're more than welcome to use it.
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However, please note that a print location
and the folders within it
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can only be edited
when you're on the same account.
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In this case, the digital print location exists
on the platform
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as seen in the storefront column of the
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what you can see on the screen here.
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This means that if you want to make
any additional changes to it,
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you'll need to be logged
in on the platform level.
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So we're going to add
a new print location.
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If I just come to you at new location
at top of the screen, that gives me
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a new row within the hot folders
window, where I can add some additional details
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that's now been inserted.
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We can add or modify address details
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using the edit button
under the address column.
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So if I go to my newly created
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print location and click edit,
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that will give me the ability
to add some additional address
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information.
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So this address is that we really use
in quite bespoke scenarios
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and can more often
than not be overlooked for
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general configurations.
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Okay. Okay.
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So at this point we're going to actually
start configuring our hot folders.
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Now just a caveat here.
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We do want to make sure that Infigo Sync
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is installed and configured
before we proceed with this step.
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There is an additional tutorial
available on configuring Infigo Sync.
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So if I click on the plus icon
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next to our print location, you'll see
I get a separate table down here,
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which is the actual hot folders that are
associated with that print location.
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We can add new hot
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folders into here
by clicking on Add new record
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similar to what we saw
with the print location itself.
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That adds a new row where we can put
some additional information.
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So first off, we have the name columns.
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So this is the system name for the hot
folder and can be used to identify it
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in the administration.
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Menu.
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The description is just
a simple description of the folder
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to allow you to identify its purpose.
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We have the folder column,
so this is the name of the folder
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that will be downloaded through Infigo
Sync.
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This can be the same as the system name
or different to it entirely
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if you really want it to be,
as this is designed to allow you
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to integrate Infigo
Sync into your existing workflow
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and go along a little bit further.
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We have active,
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So this is essentially an on off
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switch for folders is turning
this off will make a folder inactive
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and calls all parts of the system
to ignore it entirely.
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So I'm going to input that information.
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Click insert.
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Okay.
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So next we're going to look at mapping
hot folders and print locations.
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So mapping is how you can control
which order line output
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files go to,
which hot folders our hot folder
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mapping is less of a filtration system
and more of a guidance system.
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So in that there's no way to configure
this system to prevent files
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from going to certain hot folders,
and instead you'll provide them
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with arguments for incoming folders.
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So we're now going to look at
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mapping properties
to our particular hot folders.
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If we go to one of the folders that we've
just created, find the relevant row,
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and then over on the right hand side
we have edit mapping.
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So you can configure the mapping
of each potential job property.
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A job property is quite simply
some information that can be used
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to separate one job
from another at a mapping level.
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So for example, you could use the product
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tag category that we've got here
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to map products
which have specific product
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tags to the folder
that you're currently configuring.
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This will cause any outputs
that end up in this location
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and have that product tag assigned to them
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to go to this particular hot folder.
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You could be even more specific
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and not only map the product tag,
but you could do the category as well.
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For example,
so that an output file for a product
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which has the mapped product
tag assigned to it
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and is part of the mapped
category, will have two arguments
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for going to this hot folder
instead of one.
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When a file is deciding where to go,
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it will go to the hot folder
that it has the most arguments for.
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So if your folder is mapped
the three properties but
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the job only meets two of the mapping
requirements, then the job will go
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to the next available
hot folder that it has valid
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mapping for.
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Okay, so in here
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we can select our relevant properties,
whatever they may be.
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You see, we've got quite
a lot of different properties
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we could potentially choose from.
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So maybe I'll go for a specific product
in this case, for example.
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Then we can input a mapping name.
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This is for reference only,
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and then we can click on Save.
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So before you can go live with your hot
folder,
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you will need to make it
visible to the API.
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So in order to do this,
you need to click on the ‘+’ icon again
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next to the location to get access
to those specific hot folders.
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And you'll see that
one of our options in the table
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that appears is visible to API.
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We can manage this property
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by clicking on edit.
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You'll see that the initial value of false
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is now turned into an empty checkbox.
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We can place a check in the box
and click update
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and I will see that is visible to the API
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as well as
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configuring where the files go
when the automatic copied,
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you can control which product types
automatically copy their outputs
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and whether or not they do
so whenever an output is created.
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So we're going to start off
by going to configuration
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and settings,
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scroll down
to get to product and editor settings
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and then click on Infigo settings.
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You can also get to Infigo settings
or anything else in this table, of course,
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just by typing it in the menu here.
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Now what I'm looking to do
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in here is to control
which products are copied
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in the settings we're looking for, allow
you to control which types of product
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will have their outputs
automatically copied to a folder.
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So if I scroll
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down a little bit,
you'll see that I've got these auto copy
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folder options
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to control which ones are copied.
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We simply either check or
and check the box next to them,
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and then all checked product types
will have their outputs copied.
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So you can see, for example, we've got
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multipart
products, dynamic products, static, so on.
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And so on.
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We also have options in here to control
when outputs are copied.
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So these enable
the auto copying of output files
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to a folder
when the order is first considered ready.
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So when the output is created,
the order is approved, marks is paid,
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and then copying for each time
the output is recreated
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through shared print operations.
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Now this particular option
is called or begins with copy for.
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So we could actually look through the list
to try and find it.
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Easiest way is just to search.
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So I have copy for default
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and copy for each creation.
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And then it's going to scroll
to the top of this page and click on Save.
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And there we go.
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That is our hot folders
and our print locations
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configured.