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Using the QLA Emergency Key Launch with QuarkXPress

In the event that your Quark® License Administrator (QLA) primary and back-up servers are both unavailable, or if your entire network becomes disabled, you can temporarily launch copies of QuarkXPress® on your client computers using the Emergency Key Launch (EKL) feature. This allows you time to get your network or server running again.

If the primary and back-up servers are unavailable, when you attempt to launch QuarkXPress, the software displays the option to use EKL to launch the application. You can use EKL to run QuarkXPress without the servers for as long as 120 hours. (After you install QuarkXPress, the application must successfully connect to the QLA server at least once before EKL can be used.)

If QuarkXPress has not connected to a QLA server after 120 hours of EKL use, you will be unable to launch the application on the client computers.

After QuarkXPress has reconnected to the QLA server, EKL recharges itself. If you experience subsequent network failures, you will have the ability to use EKL again to operate the application for a maximum of 120 hours.