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Minimise Cutting for Nested Jobs

Posted on October 14, 2013 by jason

The Nesting feature of Serendipity Blackmagic/Megarip/C5 is designed to automatically arrange queued jobs to best use the space available on the printer media, minimising waste. In some cases however, this can make printed jobs time consuming to cut. Version 5.4.01+ … Continue reading →

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Configuring a FUJIFILM Workflow XMF (PGSQL) RIP

Posted on September 2, 2013 by jason

This article explains how to configure a FUJIFILM Workflow XMF 5.5+ (PGSQL) RIP setup in Serendipity Blackmagic/Veripress 5.4+, allowing it to poll the PGSQL database and the XMF/genstore/ for proofing jobs. It is assumes Workflow XMF and it’s PGSQL database … Continue reading →

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

Posted on July 15, 2013 by jason

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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Setting Maximum Ink when profiling high-resolution printers

Posted on March 12, 2013 by jason

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

Posted on March 8, 2013 by jason

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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