Printclient manual

It's fairly simple. Really.

In order to start, we will have to supply you with a Peecho Printer account. We will use these credentials to give you access to your job tickets. It will identify you at our systems.

Once we have arranged this, we will send you an e-mail with the queue names that you need. Usually we will send you the queue names for our test environment first. Later, you will receive the real deal. You can use these queue names to use our Printclient.

Installation

1. Please install the Printclient application using the install badge. The Adobe AIR runtime will automatically install. If not, try to manually install it from here. It will run on Windows, Mac and Linux.
2. If the application does not start automatically, start it by double clicking the application file.
3. Fill out your Peecho Printer credentials. You need your access key and your secret key.
4. Now, we you start creating a profile. Choose a location for your downloads and fill out the name of your print queue. This is the queue where the job tickets come from.
5. Fill out the name of the central order status queue. It's a single queue for the whole system that is used to gather order statuses from all our print facilities. 
6. Check the “remember settings” check box.

Now, the application seeks contact with Peecho or its test environment, depending on the queue names that you used.

Running the client

1. The application will create a directory structure on your hard drive in the location you specified for the profile. Every directory represents an order status, ranging from “in production” to “shipped” and everything in between.
2. From the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), the Printclient automatically downloads an XML job ticket for each order. It contains pointers to files that describe the job and the product.
3. From the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), the Printclient downloads at least two files for every order: an XML job description and a PDF product file.
4. The Printclient will put all downloaded files in the “in production” directory immediately. It will also tell Peecho that the orders have that status. You may start producing the orders now.
5. Once the order have been produced and shipped, you can put the files in the “shipped” directory. The Printclient will tell Peecho that the orders are shipped. We will bill the merchant and you will get your money.
6. If the files are corrupt, you may also put them in the “error” directory. We hope it will never happen.
7. The files in the “shipped” and “error” directory will be moved to the archive directory automatically, and you can remove them there if you like.