As a result, we are encouraging larger customers to submit jobs via hotfolders, which does not require any software to be installed. FieryXF was experiencing stability issues when too many Clients were logged into a given server, so this is EFI’s solution to this problem. This isn’t a huge change, since a relatively small percentage of the v6 installed base ran the server component under the MaOS, and the Command Workstation component will continue to be supported under the MacOS for the foreseeable future.Īnother limitation of v7 versus v6 is that v7 allows only ten concurrent versions of Command Workstation to be logged into the Server. The Server component will now only run under a Windows operating system environment. The new Command Workstation interface also lets you easily view multiple servers without having to log out of one and log into the other, as was the case with v6. So if you are using a new-ish operating system, such as Mac-OS 10.14 (Mojave), only v7 Command Workstation will be supported. No more problems with dongle recognition, and it’s a snap to change around the licensing if you have the need.Īnother compelling reason to consider switching to v7 is that v6 is no longer being developed. One very nice feature of v7 is that EFI has dispensed with their hardware dongle and is now using software based license protection that has become the industry norm. Most users who have used v6 can get trained on Command Workstation quite quickly. The software interface has changed significantly from v6 to v7, but the core functionality is essentially the same. However, the “Server” component remains separate for the time being. The old “Client” software (version 6) is now called Command Workstation in v7 and is indeed the same software that is used with color copiers.
In this note, we touch upon some of the new features, as well as some of the “unfeatures” and give you our straight opinion as a company that has been working with this software for ~18 years.
The current version as of late July 2019 is v7.1.2. EFI has been shipping version 7 of Fiery XF for about a year now.
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