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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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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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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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Spectrophotometer driver missing from the Instrument drop-down list

Posted on December 3, 2012 by jason

My spectrophotometer is missing from the instrument drop-down list. Users may find their spectrophotometer missing from the available instrument driver options in the Lineariser, Spectro, Calcheck and Displays applications or from Workbench Data Types such as Paper Profile. Firstly, check … Continue reading →

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How to Back Up Database Configurations

Posted on December 3, 2012 by mandy

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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