Xerox FreeFlow Makeready Installation Manual

Version 9.0.23.0

Xerox Installation

November 2019 702P08058

FreeFlow® 9.0 Makeready®

Guide

Xerox and Design

FreeFlow Output Manager®, FreeFlow Process Manager®, VIPP®, GlossMark®, SMARTsend

MeterAssistant

Print Driver

Adobe

Cloud

®, SuppliesAssistant®, Xerox Secure Access Unified ID System

, and Mobile Express Driver

, Adobe PDF logo, Adobe PDF JobReady™, Adobe

are trademarks of Xerox Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

Reader

, Flash®, InDesign®, Font Folio®, Macromedia®, Photoshop®, and PostScript

, Adobe

VersaLink

FreeFlow®, FreeFlow Makeready

, Xerox Extensible Interface Platform®, Global

Type Manager

are trademarks or registered trademarks

Scan to PC Desktop®,

, Acrobat®, ATM™, Creative

of Adobe Systems, Inc.

Apple

, Bonjour®, EtherTalk™, TrueType®, iPad®, iPhone®, iPod®, iPod touch®, AirPrint

and Macintosh

Google Cloud Print

are trademarks or registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.

™ web printing service, Gmail™ webmail service, and Android™ mobile technology platform are trademarks

and the AirPrint Logo

of Google, Inc.

HP-GL

, HP-UX®, and PCL

are registered trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Corporation in the United States and/or

other countries.

IBM

and AIX® are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States and/or

other countries.

Intel

, Pentium®, Centrino®, and Xeon® are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. Intel Core™ Duo is a

trademark of Intel Corporation.

Intelligent Mail

McAfee

is a registered trademark of the United States Postal Service.

, ePolicy Orchestrator®, and McAfee ePO™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of McAfee, Inc. in the

United States and other countries.

Microsoft

, Windows Vista®, Windows®, Windows Server®, Internet Explorer, and OneDrive

are registered trademarks of

Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.

®,

, Mac®, Mac OS®,

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Contents

Introduction 3

Makeready Software System Configuration and Installation 4

Before You Begin .............................................................................................................................................. 4

Guidelines............................................................................................................................................................ 4

Prerequisite System Specifications ............................................................................................................ 5

FreeFlow Software Installation ................................................................................................................... 5

Register Production Printers ......................................................................................................................... 7

Post-Installation Procedure 10

Adding Licensed Features After Installation ...................................................................................... 10

Test the Print Paths ...................................................................................................................................... 11

Test the Printers ..................................................................................................................................... 11

Install a Xerox® DocuMate Scanner ...................................................................................................... 12

Ensure that the System is Backed Up .................................................................................................... 12

Appendices 13

Appendix A: Managing FreeFlow Software After the Installation 14

Installing Patches and Service Packs ..................................................................................................... 14

Post-upgrade Confirmation and Configuration

Verify the Registered Printer List ..................................................................................................... 14

Reinstalling FreeFlow Software ............................................................................................................... 15

Uninstalling FreeFlow Software ............................................................................................................... 16

Procedures ................................................................... 14

Appendix B: Inspection 17

System Settings ............................................................................................................................................. 17

Disable Hyper-threading in the PC BIOS ...................................................................................... 17

Verify the Memory (RAM) .................................................................................................................. 17

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Introduction

The FreeFlow Makeready Installation Guide provides the information and procedures needed to perform the installation of a FreeFlow Makeready system.

For important information regarding system requirements and known issues and limitations for the current software release, refer to the Xerox® FreeFlow Makeready Release Notes. You can download the release notes from the Support and Drivers section on www.xerox.com.

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Makeready Software System Configuration and Installation

This chapter contains the procedures required to install and configure the FreeFlow software.

Before You Begin

Your FreeFlow product is supported on platforms that meet or exceed the system requirements defined by Xerox in the FreeFlow Makeready Release Notes Support and Drivers section on www.xerox.com. The customer installs and configures an appropriately licensed version of the operating system on the server, then installs the software.

Before the installation of the FreeFlow software starts, the Installer checks the system prerequisites and displays any prerequisites that are required before the installation can continue.

To obtain a license for the FreeFlow software, contact a Xerox Sales Representative or Agent. The license .dat file determines the options that are enabled during installation.

. For more information, visit the

Guidelines

Ensure that you follow these guidelines when you use the FreeFlow Installer application:

• To load the required software, follow the onscreen instructions.

• When you install third-party applications, always accept the default or typical installation

settings.

• If an Open File-Security Warning dialog appears, run the file referenced.

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Prerequisite System Specifications

Before you install the FreeFlow software, ensure that the following third-party software is

installed:

• Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5

• Adobe Acrobat Pro

To install the Adobe Acrobat Pro software with the default or typical settings, refer to Xerox FreeFlow Makeready Release Notes for the current supported versions.

To download the Makeready installer software from the Supports and Drivers section, visit

www.xerox.com.

If installation of the Copyright Management Service is required, configure the required IIS settings. For details, refer to the appropriate section in Appendix B: Inspection.

Note: If you have not obtained a copy of the FreeFlow Makeready Copyright Management

Services User Guide, download the document from the Support and Drivers section on

www.xerox.com.

FreeFlow Software Installation

To install the FreeFlow Makeready software, perform the following:

Note: Before you install the FreeFlow software, ensure that the platform meets or exceeds the

minimum system requirements.

1. Ensure that you are logged in to the system as the Windows Administrator and that no

other applications are running. If DPAdmin is the Administrator account, continue to use this account.

2. To run the FreeFlow Makeready installer, double-click the Makeready-9.0.xx.x-MN.exe,

where xx.x is the version of the file. If prompted to confirm running the file, select Run.

3. The FreeFlow Makeready Installer application launches, then checks for prerequisites. If

the installer detects that required applications are not installed on the system, it displays the applications in a list, or a warning appears.

Note: If all prerequisites are met, the Welcome screen appears. If a warning appears,

before you continue, verify that all settings are configured properly.

4. Click Next. The FreeFlow Makeready Installer Welcome screen appears.

5. Click Next. The Licensing screen appears.

6. To upload the license .dat file, complete the following steps:

Click Add license. Browse to the location of the .dat file, then click Open.

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