Saving .tif files in intervals

My problem should be simple... but I've been hunting for a solution for the past hour with no luck.
I have a photoshop template that I enter custom text into, and then I want to save the message as a 1bit .tif file.
I'm able to convert the file to the 1bit tif via actions without a problem. However, I want to save the tif automatically with a suffix "testfileA.tif, testfileB.tif etc"
so each time I play that action I will get a new file in my current folder. Currently it just overrides my tif file when I run it.
I want to be able to add the custom text, run the script which will save "testfileA.tif" and then be able to go right back to my psd and add another set of custom text and then run the action again and have it save as "testfileB.tif" and all be in the same folder.
In the end I want to have one photoshop doc in my folder and 3 different tif files with A,B,C suffix after the name...
Is it possible?

Would you like to clarify . Your TIF , is this an image? and on which pages would you like to print it?
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