http://blog.serendipity-software.com.au Musings and happenings Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:36:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Serendipity Blackmagic 3.5.04 has been released. Highlights of this version include: Support for Canon ipf500/600/700 printers Calcheck patches can now be created in CMYK as well as Lab Linearisations can be reverted to a previous item from the history list Touch console is now resolution independent ... http://blog.serendipity-software.com.au/archives/2008/05/14/serendipity-blackmagic-3504-released/ Recently, I have been inundated with questions about achieving the best performance / colour accuracy with EIZO ColorEdge monitors and our software. After many experiments, here is the procedure I have come up. 1. First use the ColorNavigator software from EIZO to calibrate the monitor hardware. I use the following settings ... http://blog.serendipity-software.com.au/archives/2008/05/09/using-the-eizo-coloredge-monitors-with-blackmagic-and-megarip/ As many of you already know, the Signature Group editor in Workbench can import a variety of imposition signatures. However, we have encountered some files which contain impositions that are not as accurate as the numeric precision which is used in the file. This inaccuracy varies and and ... http://blog.serendipity-software.com.au/archives/2007/11/07/importing-grouping-and-pairing-pages-in-imposition-signatures/ Serendipity Blackmagic and Megarip have always included a monitor calibration app to ensure colour accurate softproofing. The one step that was missing was verification of the state of the monitor calibration. Currently in development is a new app called Calcheck which addresses this issue. The concept is very simple. ... http://blog.serendipity-software.com.au/archives/2007/09/12/monitor-verification-to-be-included-in-3445/ Did you know that both Serendipity Blackmagic and Serendipity Megarip have a Web server built in. This allows you to access the information about the server and the jobs processing from your own web browser providing you have a network connection to the server. It does not allow any user ... http://blog.serendipity-software.com.au/archives/2007/07/16/web-server/ Since Version 3 was released we have had the ability to apply various attributes to special colours. This is done to simulate the actual printed results especially in the packaging industry. For example a foil which is printed on top is set to a knockout so that the special colour ... http://blog.serendipity-software.com.au/archives/2007/07/03/understanding-special-colour-attributes/ We had problem reported to support where a customer was unable to create new Pagesetup without first deleting one. If they did then they got a kernel panic on the Mac. They sent the database to us and sure enough we were able to crash both a Power PC and ... http://blog.serendipity-software.com.au/archives/2007/05/11/how-to-crash-a-mac/ Serendipity Blackmagic 3.4 has been released. Highlights of this version include: Softproof has an Ink key viewer which allows rapid press setup without having to export a CIP3 / CIP4 file. Softproof can now automatically show reader spreads from single pages. Softproof now allows users to attach notes to specific sections of the ... http://blog.serendipity-software.com.au/archives/2007/04/04/serendipity-blackmagic-34-released/ Serendipity Megarip 4.4 has been released. Highlights of this version include: Unsharp masking rendering effect for sharper photo enlargements. Support for Canon iPF5000, iPF8000, iPF9000 printers including RGB ink support Support for Epson 3800 printers Support for HP Z2100, Z3100 printers including RGB ink support User configurable light ink separator for smoother vignettes and photos "Windows ... http://blog.serendipity-software.com.au/archives/2007/04/04/serendipity-megarip-44-released/ Recently I have been asked the question: "When does the pagesetup pool decide which pagesetup  the job will process on ?" The answer is pretty simple. 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 ... http://blog.serendipity-software.com.au/archives/2007/04/02/pagesetup-pool-decision-algorithm/