This topic describes how to set up Photo Kiosk to export collected orders in the needed format. You can choose to export orders to 1) DPOF (format used by minilabs, check your minilab technical specification for support of this format) or 2) to arbitrary format grouping collected photos into folders with pre-defined structure.
If you use Photo Kiosk as instant order station, you do not have order management stage in your workflow.
Generally, orders management process in Photo Kiosk includes the following:
To configure orders management run Configuration Tool and select Ordering Photos from the tree on the left. The following General settings are available in the Ordering Photos section:
| Name | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Enabled | selected | Here you can disable print order station mode. |
| Folder to store orders | C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\
Aurigma\PhotoKiosk\7.0\Orders |
Destination folder for exported orders. |
| Convert photos to JPEG | cleared | If selected, all photos in order will be converted to JPEG format. |
| Enable temporary storage cleanup | cleared | If selected, an order will be removed from the temporary storage after it is exported. |
| Enable transliteration | cleared | If selected, non-English symbols in any file names will be transliterated into English. In case of using DPOF, non-English symbols in original photo names will be transliterated. |
| Use DPOF | cleared | Select this check box to export orders in DPOF. If it is cleared, orders are exported in the arbitrary format (read below how to set up folders structure). |
If you disabled automatic temporary storage cleanup, you should regularly clean the storage manually. Otherwise you will run out of free disk space and Photo Kiosk will not work properly.
The following settings are available in the Arbitrary format subsection:
| Name | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Photo template | %KioskId%\%Date%\%CustomerName%\%Format%_%PaperType%\%PrintsQuantity%_%FileName% | Path and filename to save the processed photo. |
| Order info template | %KioskId%\%OrderId%_info.html | Path and filename of the html file containing order description. The file will be generated during the order export. |
Let us demonstrate how templates work. Suppose there is a kiosk which ID is Kiosk, and John Smith ordered 4 copies of photo_01.jpg to print on 10x15 matt paper and 1 copy of photo_02.jpg to print on 20x30 matt paper. The order was placed on November 1, 2011 and get Kiosk19 order ID. The following folder structure will be created using default path templates:
Kiosk\ 2011_11_01\ JOHN SMITH\ 10x15_matt\ 4_photo_01.jpg 20x30_matt\ 1_photo_02.jpg Kiosk19_info.html
If you expect small orders and want to simplify folder structure (decrease number of levels), you can, for example, use the following templates:
%KioskId%\%Date%_%CustomerName%\%Format%_%PaperType%_%PrintsQuantity%_%FileName% for Photo template
%KioskId%\%Date%_%CustomerName%\info.html for Order info template
In this case folder structure for the order above will be as follows:
Kiosk\ 2011_11_01_JOHN SMITH\ 10x15_matt_4_photo_01.jpg 20x30_matt_1_photo_02.jpg info.html
If you choose DPOF as order export format, you can configure the following settings in the DPOF subsection:
| Name | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Photo template | %KioskId%\Order_%OrderId% | Path and filename to save processed photo. |
| Order info template | %KioskId%\Order_%OrderId%\info.html | Path and filename of the html file containing order description. The file will be generated during the order export. |
| Channel mapping | ||
| Paper | photo paper format/type pair | All paper format/type pairs are listed here. You can add/delete paper type or format in the Paper Types and Paper Formats sections of Configuration Tool; for more information see the Configuring Photo Paper Formats and Types. |
| Channel | Specify print channel in your minilab used for corresponding format/paper type pair. | |
Let us demonstrate how templates work. Suppose, there is a kiosk having Kiosk ID. The kiosk is configured to use DPOF and channels are mapped as follows: 10x15 matt - channel 202, 20x30 matt - channel 102. Someone John Smith ordered 4 copies of photo_01.jpg to print on 10x15 matt paper and 1 copy of photo_02.jpg to print on 20x30 matt paper. The order was placed on November 1, 2011 and get Kiosk19 order ID. The following folder structure will be created using default path templates:
Kiosk\ Order_Kiosk19\ print-channel-102\ FILES\ photo_01.jpg MISC\ AUTPRINT.MRK UNICODE.MRK print-channel-202\ FILES\ photo_02.jpg MISC\ AUTPRINT.MRK UNICODE.MRK info.html
Let us presume, you want all orders to be arranged by date, not by kiosk ID, and you want to have a quick access to all order descriptions; the following templates do this:
%Date%\Order_%OrderId% for Photo template
%Date%\%CustomerName%_%OrderId%_info.html for Order info template
In this case folder structure for the order above will be as follows:
2011_11_01\ Order_Kiosk19\ print-channel-102\ FILES\ photo_01.jpg MISC\ AUTPRINT.MRK UNICODE.MRK print-channel-202\ FILES\ photo_02.jpg MISC\ AUTPRINT.MRK UNICODE.MRK JOHN SMITH_Kiosk19_info.html
Photo template and Order info template settings (of both, DPOF and arbitrary format) can contain tags, which are populated by real values during the order export. To insert a tag you can select it in the Tags list box and click Insert or type tag name directly via keyboard. The following tags are supported:
%KioskId% - Photo Kiosk instance ID.
%OrderId% - order ID.
%CustomerName% - customer name.
%Format% - format of a photo.
%PaperType% - selected paper type.
%CropMode% - selected crop mode.
%PrintsQuantity% - number of copies.
%Date% - date when the order was created.
%FileName% - the original file name.