Obtaining electronic licenses for the Imaging Toolkit

Installing individual or network licenses

If you are using the Toolkit with a few printers, then install the individual licenses locally on each printer. If you are using the Imaging Toolkit with several printers, then install the license server and obtain a network license for the appropriate number of devices.

Determining whether your printer needs an electronic or paper license

The instructions in this guide describe how to assign an electronic license to a printer running the Embedded Solutions Framework (eSF). If you are using a non-eSF printer, then contact your Lexmark representative to obtain a paper license. To determine which type of printer you have:

  1. Open a Web browser, and then type the printer IP address.

    Note: View the IP address in the TCP/IP section of the Network/Ports menu.

  2. Click Settings or Configuration.

Your printer supports eSF if you see any of the following links:

Collecting host ID information

For individual (local) licensing

  1. Open a Web browser, and then type the printer IP address.

    Note: View the IP address in the TCP/IP section of the Network/Ports menu.

  2. Click Reports > Device Information.

  3. Note the value associated with “Serial Number.”

For network licensing

The host ID for network licensing is the MAC address of the computer where the license server is located. To find the MAC address, contact your administrator, or do the following:

  1. After the license server is installed, from the computer, navigate to the list of installed programs.

  2. Click Lexmark > License Server > License Administrator Tools > System Settings.

  3. Note the value associated with the Ethernet address (MAC address).

    4. Note: The host ID can also be located from the command line by entering the license server installation path, followed by the >lmutil hostid command.
Installing a license server

A license server is intended for use with Windows operating systems.

  1. From the Imaging Toolkit package, launch the LicenseServer.exe file.

    This executable file is located in <install location>\esf-license-app.

  2. Click Next.

  3. Select the installation method you want to use, and then click Next.

  4. If you want to install the server in an alternate location, then click Browse.

  5. Click Finish to complete the installation.

  6. Click Done.