PrintShop Mail can print multiple layouts on a single page that is larger than the layout itself, which is useful for printing address stickers, postcards and business cards. This concept is sometimes referred to as Multi-Up or N-Up, where N is the number of layouts in a page (e.g. 2-up, 4-up, 8-up, etc). The technique can also be used to save "clicks" on printers that charge you each time a physical page is ejected, by placing multiple copies or records on a single, larger sheet.
This is done by using the Layout Repetition settings in the PrintShop Mail Preferences dialog (see Repetition Settings).
You can use the repetition settings to re-order the output so it creates stacks. This is useful when you are cutting the stack at printout, in order to retain the precise order of the records. For example, if you are printing 500 "tickets" 4-up using a COUNTER function to display a serial number, you would probably want to keep the order as 1-500.
To do this, you can set the first priority settings to be (1) on Front to back, the second to be (2) on Top to bottom and finally (3) on Left to right. This way the first record is printed on the top-left of the first page, the second record on the top-left of the first page, etc. Record 126 will be on the top-right of the first page, and 500 will be at the bottom-right of the last page.
When you cut the output stack in 4, you can then simply order them in the order of: top-left, top-right, bottom-left then bottom-right stacks, and this will retain your 1-500 order.
If you are creating a PrintShop Mail document with two layouts per record and Cut & Stack, you will need to use the Front to back option in priority 1 as described above, or else your "back" layout would end up besides your front one instead of on the back of the page. In order for this system to work correctly, you need to make sure that every record always generates two layouts.
When duplexing, you also need to remember to correctly select the proper Mirroring setting to the same option as your Duplexing option on the printer, so the layouts on the back are correctly ordered. For example, if you print in Short-Edge Duplex in your printer, select Flip on Short-Edge in the Mirroring option.
When you use layout condition SKIP for your PrintShop Mail documents with multiple layouts, or when you have applied variable Number of Copies, this may cause the size of the record sets (the number of actual printed layouts per record) to be different per record set. This in turn may cause some record sets to be split across different stacks. To avoid this, always make sure that the number of layouts per record is correct (you can use conditional "blank" layouts to do this).