Check the Enable start application check box to enable the driver to launch an application or uncheck it to disable the application launching.
If the specified application is already running, the printer driver will start a new instance of the application.
Application to be started
The user must specify the full path of the application to be started by the printer driver. For example, if one wants to start the app.exe application located in the c:\temp folder, use c:\temp\app.exe in the input field. The printer driver can handle long file and directory names. The user must have Read, Execute and Write privileges for the configured directory.
Start Before Printing
Select this option to start the specified application before the printer driver starts printing. This must be used if an application needs to change the printer driver settings through the messaging interface, or the application needs a long start-up time.
The Start Before Printing option does not wait for an application to start processing messages. Please refer to the Messaging Interface page in the API/RTK (Resource Toolkit online manual) for more detail.
Start After Printing
Select this option to start your application after the printer driver finishes printing. This is the best solution when the application must manipulate the files that were created. For example: copying and processing. Information about the generated files is saved by the driver in the group file. Please refer to the Group Files Description and the Application Programming Interface pages in the API/RTK (Resource Toolkit online manual) for more detail.
Start for Messaging
Select this option to start an application, and the printer driver waits for the application to start processing messages. The Start for Messaging option, by default, waits up to 10 seconds for the application before continuing the printing process. The time delay to wait for the application can be configured through the printer driver configuration INI file using the Messaging Timeout option. For technical details, refer to Description of the INI file values page in the API/RTK (Resource Toolkit online manual). As soon as the application starts processing messages, the printer driver continues printing. If selecting the Start for Messaging option, and the application does process the messages, the printing process becomes slower.