Licensing

Use licensing to customize and expand your Prinergy system to suit your needs. By entering an appropriate license key, you can enable additional features and add more JTPs.

Core license

Important: Always use the primary Prinergy server to work with licensing. Do not work with licensing on a non-primary server, such as a secondary or tertiary server.

Permanent features of your Prinergy system are licensed by a single key. Temporary features may be enabled by adding additional time-limited licenses to your system. The permanent key along with any temporary keys appear under the License Keys section of the License Information dialog box.
If you buy additional permanent features, or make changes to purchased options, you are assigned a new license key that includes all the permanent features for which you are licensed.
You may be able to select unlicensed options when adding a JTP or creating a process template. However, only the licensed options will run successfully when you use the process template.

Software licensing

Prinergy Workflow 7.5 introduced a new type of licensing technology that does not require hardware dongles for verification. Instead, your Prinergy server will contact the Kodak Product License and Activation System (PLAS) in the background on a regular basis to keep your system licenses up to date. An internet connection is required for automatic maintenance of your licenses. If your primary server is not connected to the internet, you can follow the offline process that is described below. When upgrading to version 7.5 or later, you must also upgrade your license. When installing the Prinergy Workflow 7.5 or later software on your primary server, the installer will display a licensing dialog box with your server's unique system ID and fields for you to enter your license ID and Partner Place user ID. If your system has access to the internet and can reach PLAS, you can enter the requested information and click the License Key button. Then, click Retrieve License to retrieve your new license key from PLAS.

Notes:

• Your License ID is the same as your Prinergy Workflow serial number which takes the form YCxxxxx or YCxxxxx-xx.
• The Kodak Product Registration and License Activation System (PLAS) is a tool that enables you to obtain Prinergy software license keys securely through the Internet. See using PLAS.
• Resale or reuse of the original hardware (dongle) license constitutes a breach of the software license agreement. Obsolete dongles are to be returned to Kodak within four weeks of upgrading to a release that uses software-based licensing from a dongle-based version. The dongle return form can be found here.
  

Adding new licenses

If you want to enable new options on your Prinergy system, contact your customer service representative and purchase a new license key.
When you get a new license, remove the current license key and add the new license key with the new features. If you do not remove the old license, the Prinergy system might not recognize the new license.
With some licensed features, such as screening options in output JTPs, you must manually enable the license before the feature can be used, even though the feature may be listed in the License Information dialog box. These features are enabled on a JTP-by-JTP basis.
After you enter all licenses, save a copy of the license information and keep it in a safe place. If a license is accidentally removed, you will need this information.
Note: Before changing the license, first stop Prinergy on the server so that the licensing options become available. 

Temporary license keys

You can obtain temporary licenses for particular features in order to run features on a trial basis. For example, you can get a license key to temporarily add a CEPSConversion JTP to your system and test it with your workflow. After a predetermined date, the license expires and the feature is disabled.
Add a temporary license key in the same manner as a permanent license key. Once you enter a temporary license key, the license key itself does not appear in Prinergy Administrator again. However, any related features appear in the features list when you view licensed options, and the Expiration column indicates when the feature will expire.
Prinergy monitors licenses on a regular basis and issues a warning when a temporary license is about to expire.
If you want to permanently license a temporary feature, contact your service representative to obtain a new permanent license key.
Note: You cannot have more than one permanent license key because the permanent license key includes all the features you have purchased. You can have multiple temporary license keys, each enabling a feature that you want to test.

Screen licensing

Kodak Maxtone screening is built in to the base Prinergy license. Additional screens, such as Staccato and Advanced Screening are available as licenses.
Some screens have different types of licensing. For information about each type of screen licensing, see the following table:

After you enter a license key for a screen, enable it in each output JTP using the the JTP Properties dialog box. High-resolution output JTPs use different screen systems from low-resolution JTPs. Some output JTPs do not use any screening, including Copydot, PostScript Level 3, and Vector Output.
For more information about screens, see the Prinergy Workshop User Guide.