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Understanding Special Colour Attributes

Blackmagic and Veripress users have the ability to apply various attributes to special colours in order to simulate actual printed results, especially in the packaging industry. For example a foil which is printed on top is set to a knockout … Continue reading

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Web Server

Did you know that both Serendipity Blackmagic, Serendipity Megarip and Veripress have a built-in Web Server? This allows you to access the information about the server and the jobs processing from your own web browser providing you have a network … Continue reading

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Crash Logs on Mac OS X

If you are running Serendipity Blackmagic/Megarip/Veripress Server or Client on Mac OS X and either of them crash, then it is very useful to get the crash log from the Mac for the application that had the problem. This can … Continue reading

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Finding the Dongle Serial Number

All Serendipity software packages require a hardware USB dongle for the Server to run. The dongle’s serial number is printed on the dongle label. However, the dongle will quite often be plugged into a hard to get to USB port, … Continue reading

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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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