welcome to onyx graphics my name is dawn Carey and I'm a senior software engineer today we're going
to talk about the onyx print and cut workflow let's take a look at the software new to onyx
11 is the onyx cutter manager in this dialogue you have the ability to disable any cutters that you
don't have in your shop allowing for a simplified display this dialog also gives you the ability to
configure your cutter registration marks that are added automatically at print time some
cutters allow more control over the placement of marks than others this cutter for example allows
you to set the margins around the marks and how much space is in between the intermittent marks
others require the marks to be placed in an exact location at the very least you can choose to turn
on and off the onyx barcode once your cutter is configured you need to tell the RIP what cutter
you want to use with your prints quick sets provide a great way to manage your workflow and
it's a great idea to create a quick set associated with your cutter this way any image opened with
your quick set will print with a cutter marks for this cutter and the cut paths will be generated
for your device in order for the RIP to recognize the cut paths in your artwork you need to specify
a spot color prefix to identify your cut paths the default is cut contour you can also automatically
generate PDF trim boxes or tile outlines these are especially useful for automatically cutting out a
simple mess of raster images while quick sets are especially handy for automating workflows these
same options cutter selection cut path prefix and trim boxes are also available in job editor
and the job options dialog when you open your job make sure you have your cutting quick set selected
once the print is complete you're ready to cut in onyx this is handled through
the cut server application the first step in cut server is to select manage cutters
and add your device you can add as many devices as you have connected
this icon brings up the configure cutter dialog where you set up your connection
port and configure your options new to onyx 11 is the ability to manage device settings cut job
settings and cut layer settings separately based on whichever your device supports device settings
if you have them apply to every job sent to the device cut job settings our configurations that
are set once per job these might include things such as mark recognition strategy which could
change from job to job but will only be sent once for that job if your cutter only supports
single layer cutting this is also where you would set pressure and velocity layer options allow you
to configure different options for multiple cut layers within the same job an example
would be a light pressure and high velocity for a kiss cut and then a heavy pressure and
low velocity for a through cut layer options can be automatically matched to the cut layer
by giving these settings configurations the same name as a spot layer in the original image it's a
simple process to manually select the layer too you can add layers move paths from one layer to
another disable layers change the cut order and completely delete the layer and its paths once the
options and layers are configured you are ready to cut your job and that concludes our video on
the onyx print and cut workflow if you want to learn more visit our website at onyx GFX com