welcome to onyx graphics my name is dawn carey and i'm a senior software engineer today we're
going to demonstrate how to use the similar ole cutters with the onyx print and cut workflow
let's get right into the software let's begin by configuring our cut marks in the onyx 11 cutter
manager as you can see there are four different Summa cutter families listed the options for
these last three are identical the Summa F being a flatbed cutter has different marks and therefore
different options let's take a look at the Summa s-class the first option is the barcode the Summa
barcode is the PostNet barcode used with the Summa barcode server for automated cuts this barcode
also includes the XY line you can select the standard onyx barcode for using a barcode reader
with the cut server or you can choose not to print any barcode saving a little ink in the process the
X margins are in the scan Direction Y margins are in the feed Direction the mark margin is from the
edge of the media to the edge of the mark the image margin is measured from the edge of the
media to the image intermediate marks are used to increase accuracy on long jobs here you can turn
the marks off and on and set the distance between default is nineteen point six nine inches or 500
millimeters now that we've configured the marks let's tell the RIP what cutter we're going to
use by creating our quick set click sets provide a great way to manage your workflow we're going
to create a quick set associated with our Summa s-class we'll keep the default cut contour prefix
for our cut path and for these jobs will leave tiled outline and PDF trim box turned off while
quick sets are especially handy for automating workflows these same options cutter selection
cut path prefix and trim boxes are also available in the job editor and the job options dialog now
let's open an image that's been prepared with both a kiss cut layer and a flex cut layer which is
very typical for an adhesive sticker application while the job is printing let's look at the
options we have in cut server if you've done any cutting with onyx and Summa in the past the first
thing you'll probably notice in onyx 11 cut server is that there are now only a handful of symbol
devices rather than a long and confusing list of individuals our Summa is an S Class D so we'll
select that one now let's look at the options that we have first are the port options since
we're cutting directly we can use either tcp IP or Summa USB but this example will select zoom a USB
Summa has a particular way they do USB so we'll want to make sure our selection is the same as the
one configured on the cutter now let's look at the other settings available Summa cutters have both
job and layer settings job settings are set once per job such as the Opus mark reading strategy the
settings for Summa flex-cufed are also set once you have the option of using the settings on the
device or overwriting these values on the device here through the driver a word of caution when you
change these values they will change on the device for all future jobs until those values are changed
you can set up multiple different job options maybe you have a thin vinyl and a thicker vinyl
that you work with you could set up two different job options with Flex cut setting values to match
layer settings are also set here this is where you set the value for speed pressure and tool this is
also where you turn on the Flex cut option and the job options we only set the Flex cut values
this is where we will actually tell the cutter to use those values to do a flex cut if you know
the names of the spot colors used to create the cut paths in the original document you can name
your layer settings exactly the same this way cut server will automatically match the layer settings
with the actual layer but if not it's a simple process to the select the settings for each layer
you can set the order you want your layers to be cut in but be aware that flex cut will always
be cut last now that the options and layers are configured we are ready to cut the job and that
concludes our demonstration if you would like to learn more visit our website at onyx GFX com