Someone asked me how to automate a process that involved printing any image added to a given folder and then deleting it. This was something that we used when I was in the printing business and is quite common on Macs but this needed to be accomplished on a Windows PC.

I found and downloaded folder watching software called Total Folder Monitor. This software allows you to specify actions based on specific changes to a defined folder. I set up a test folder and 2 actions; launch a PhotoShop 'Droplet' and delete the file any time a file was added. A PhotoShop Droplet is a small application that will launch PhotoShop if needed and then perform PhotoShop actions per your instructions. My Droplet's action was only to scale, print and close the active image.

After some testing, I discovered that you can use a command line version of a droplet and wild card the target file; my example:
C:\test.exe C:\test\*.jpg

The command line code is entered into Total Folder Monitor. So, anytime an image is added to C:\test\, the following sequence of events is activated.

1. Total Folder Monitor launches PhotoShop Droplet
2. Droplet performs PhotoShop Action
3. Total Folder Monitor deletes the file
4. Total Folder Monitor waits for next file

Have fun with it.