Hot folder.

A hot folder is a folder the RIP watches; any file dropped into it is picked up and processed with a stored set of print settings, with nobody opening a dialog. The implementations differ only in what the folder is bound to: in ONYX each hot folder corresponds to a Quick Set and is monitored while RIP-Queue runs, while Fiery Hot Folders pairs each folder with its own profile of print settings and a job action. That is the whole primitive, and most print-on-demand automation is built on it: an order system writes the file to the right folder and the press behaves. What makes it dangerous is that the settings are invisible. Nobody can see which media, which profile or which ink limit a folder carries by looking at the folder, so one edit made for a rush job keeps applying itself to everything dropped in afterwards, and the evidence turns up hours later as a stack of garments printed against the wrong profile. Name folders for the exact state they encode, and treat editing one as a production change rather than a convenience.