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Paper Profiles for Canon “Printer Screening” Drivers

Blackmagic and Megarip include manufacturer printer screening or (HTM – half tone module) drivers as part of printer output suites provided with the software. Printer screening drivers utilise manufacturer designed LUTs (look up tables) specific to individual media, resolution and … Continue reading

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Mac OS X Lion / Mountain Lion excessive Dock CPU usage

Some users running on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.x or Mountain Lion 10.8.x may encounter an operating system “spinning beach ball” hang lasting several minutes when deleting 1000+ jobs from the Queuemanager. During this time the Dock will be unresponsive … Continue reading

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Setting Maximum Ink when profiling high-resolution printers

Users may find when calibrating printers with a high normal print resolution, i.e. 1200 x 1200 dpi or above, that severe Paper Profile Ink Limiting is required in order to prevent flooding. The necessity to Ink Limit 2+ ink channels … 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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Java Error on Mac OS X Lion 10.7

Users on Mac OS X Lion 10.7 and Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 may encounter a pop up message when they open a Serendipity Client window or Application containing a list of Spectrophotometer instruments, e.g. the Lineariser. The message … Continue reading

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