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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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Pagesetup Pool Decision Algorithm

Posted on July 11, 2013 by jason

When does the Pagesetup Pool decide which Pagesetup the job will process on ? As the job is about to start Imaging, the server inspects the pagesetup pool configuration and the current job queue. It then assigns an appropriate pagesetup … Continue reading →

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Dongle problems on Mac OS X 10.4.7

Posted on July 10, 2013 by jason

This support article has been ported from our blog and is for users of older (pre BM 3.2.01/MR 4.2.01) versions of our software running on Mac OS X 10.4.7. It is not relevant to current version users. On Mac OS … Continue reading →

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Paper Profiles for Canon “Printer Screening” Drivers

Posted on May 17, 2013 by jason

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

Posted on April 2, 2013 by jason

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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