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Controlling the number of simultaneous processes on a multi-core system
16. September 2026
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Color Factory environment settings
Note
This functionality is only available in Color Factory Enterprise.
In Color Factory Settings, select Global Options in the console tree, then open the Process Environment tab to configure advanced options that govern how Color Factory operates.
Allowing multi-processing
If running Color Factory on a multi-CPU platform, you may want to increase the maximum number of processes that can run simultaneously. The maximum number of simultaneous processes allowed is twice the number of processor cores installed on the server system plus one; this ensures there is always sufficient power available to process files at a reasonable rate. The absolute maximum number of simultaneous processes is 16.
Channel priority
When configuring a channel, you can set its priority. This way, channels requiring faster processing than others may be given priority over lower-priority channels. On the Process Environment tab, you may set the priority level as a percentage of files processed over a given time period for all channels of each priority, provided there are always files to process. The default values are 80, 15, and 5 for high, medium, and low priority levels, respectively, which means that traffic in low-priority channels will never fully stop, while high-priority channels will be given much more CPU time.
Color Management engine
Color Factory can use both the ICM color engine and the Adobe Color Engine for color processing. Windows ICM is the default choice, but if you prefer the Adobe engine, just switch here and save the configuration to apply the changes.