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Running Serendipity Blackmagic/Megarip/Veripress as a Windows background service

In some cases, system administrators may wish to run the Serendipity Blackmagic/Megarip/Veripress Server as background service on Windows. This may be for security reasons or to prevent accidental shutdown of the server by users. The Windows Task Scheduler is used to … Continue reading

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Network Ports used by Serendipity products

Sometimes users may find a stand-alone Serendipity Client is unable to connect to a Blackmagic/Megarip/Veripress Server running on another machine on the network. A common reason for this is a firewall between the Client and the Server. In order to … Continue reading

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Using a Solid State Drive (SSD) for Working Paths

Working Paths are the folders used by the Blackmagic / Megarip / Veripress Server to store and process jobs. There are four paths:- Raster – holds all the imaged and rendered previews, jobs and print files while they are live … Continue reading

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How to Back Up Database Configurations

All Serendipity Software products have a built-in Archives application to help back-up any saved database configurations. It is highly recommended that a backup is performed after first installation and periodically to avoid any data loss in the event of a … Continue reading

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Veripress – Printing to a Published Pagesetup Printer Across a Network

Printing from Mac OS X to Mac OS X, or Windows to Windows Printing to a published pagesetup printer across a network where both computers (the machine sending the print and the machine running the Veripress Server) share a common … Continue reading

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