Xerox 701P47169 To select a device type for Preps versions prior to, Missing hardware key error

About FreeFlow Process Manager

To select a device type for PREPS versions prior to 5.2.2

You must select a device type for each signature in order to use old PREPS job files.

1.Start PREPS.

2.Select [Setup: Device Setup].

3.Select [Press Sheet Size] in the “Installed Devices” section.

4.Select [OK] to close the Device Setup dialog.

5.Close the PREPS application. You can now use the old job files.

For more information about device setup, refer to your PREPS documentation.

Missing hardware key error

If the ”Preps Server error, check Preps Automation Front-End server” error message is displayed on your PREPS UI or on the server that you are using to run PREPS, do the following, even if the PREPS hardware key is not missing:

1.Stop the PREPS Automation Front-End server by performing one of the following:

•If there is a yellow folder icon (with the tooltip “Waiting for Jobs”) in the systray, double-click the icon to open the Preps UI.

–In the UI, select [File: Exit] to close PREPS.

•If there is not a yellow folder icon (with the tooltip “Waiting for Jobs”) in the systray, then the application must be stopped in the Windows Task Manager.

–Open Windows Task Manager, find the PrepsSlv.exe process, and end the process.

–Find the PrepsSrv.exe process and end the process.

2.Close the FreeFlow Process Manager applications and shut down the FreeFlow Process Manager server.

3.Reinsert the hardware key.

4.Reboot the FreeFlow Process Manager server.

5.Open the FreeFlow Process Manager applications and resubmit the job. The Preps Automation Front-End server starts automatically.

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