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PrintShop Web Installation Guide | 4
Introduction
The instructions in this document describe how to install, set up, and initialize PrintShop Web. After you
have finished installing the software components and configured them properly, you are ready to use
your PrintShop Web system. Refer to the PrintShop Web documentation for information about using
the various software components.
Before you begin installing PrintShop Web and its associated files, make sure that the computers on
which you plan to install the software meet the minimum hardware and software requirements, and that
you have sufficient hard disk space to install the PrintShop Web software.
Steps to install
As a general rule, we recommend to install the PrintShop Web and its accompanying modules on
a clean machine using the supplied installer. A clean machine is any computer running Windows
XP, Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 without preinstalled versions of PHP, MySQL, Apache
webserver or Microsoft IIS (or at least turned off).
The following steps are required to install PrintShop Web:
1 Install the software components using the PrintShop Web installer (setup.exe)
2 Initialize the PrintShop Web website and database
3 Optionally configure the PrintShop Server service and set up printers
Upgrading PSW
When upgrading PrintShop Web we strongly advise to read the Important update notes chapter and
create backups of your current PrintShop Web installation.