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Serendipity Blackmagic version 3 includes completely new features as well as improvements on old features. The features which created the most excitement at recent trade shows are described below. Click on the feature thumbnail images to see a full resolution JPEG screen capture related to that feature.

Duplexing 

Use any double-sided Postscript[tm] or PCL5 compatible printer to create full-colour or black-and-white "dummies" of your books. An intuitive user interface lets you select the jobs you wish to deimpose, assign a deimpostion signature to each and then let Serendipity Blackmagic do the rest for you. No folding and no cutting required.

Clustering 

Especially useful for high-volume production and quick turn-around sites, the new clustering feature will let you use more than one computer to process jobs. A master machine will determine how jobs are distributed across a cluster of networked Serendipity Blackmagic slaves so you never miss your deadlines again.

Plate Paint Modes

Real life inks often have characteristics which are difficult to simulate digitally. The new Plate Paint Modes are a step towards more realistic simulation. A plate can be assigned any one of these paint modes:

• Overprint, traditional mixing of channels
• Knockout, all channels of the top plate dominate those of the plates bellow it
• Primer, white ink simulation
• Opaque, variable opacity to simulate metallic or other special inks

Soft Proofing

High-resolution on-screen viewing is now supported. View at the nominated output resolution without any restrictions. Turn plates on or off and even assign colours to plates on the fly to preview all the new plate paint modes.

You can even run automatic colour replacement sets to create on-screen blue-line previews for checking trapping features.

Re-written & Re-designed Serendipity Client

Serendipity phased out the Java[tm] user interface in favour of a completely re-written and re-designed new native interface. This means that workstation resources are being used more efficiently resulting in a much faster user interface with highly efficient memory usage. While at it, the opportunity was taken to add many new features serendipity users have been asking for as well as some new key beneficial features:

Colorimetric instruments can be used on any workstation running the Serendipity Client. Example shows the included Spectrophotometer and Densitometer applications.

All lists can have their contents filtered. Example shows list contents filtered on the word "impo".

Multiple work surfaces on the same window. Surfaces can be customised by the user. The example shows a surface set up with output queue monitoring modules.

Multiple work surfaces on the same window. Surfaces can be customised by the user. The example shows a surface set up with source RIP monitoring modules.

Comprehensive and integrated configuration editor. The example shows the 3 settings sections of the Pagesetup Pool editor. Any datatype may be selected for editing from the same window.

New archiving utility. Example shows all items from the database added to the archive in a few seconds. Very memory efficient too!

Edit and create any configuration item from anywhere it gets used directly. The example shows how to edit the pagesetup used by a job directly from the QueueManager.

Instant messaging application for communicating with other Serendipity Clients connected to the same server.