in this video we're going to walk through some of the basic functions of the onyx software
including opening and printing your first job editing jobs in job editor
and printing a cut job with cut marks and a cut file
the first time you launch rip queue you'll see the printers that you installed during the
installation process listed in the printer section of rip queue the first thing you'll want to do is
navigate over to the printer information section you'll see that your media profile is listed and
your page size is listed you can select the gear icon here to make adjustments to these
this is where you come to make any changes to the media profile that you want to use when opening
jobs and then also if you want to change the page size to match what's loaded on the printer
this is where you would do so as well to rip and print our first job i'm going to go to open
it'll bring up the open file dialog box
i've got my samples folder selected here opening your job is as easy as selecting the file
and clicking open
you'll see that our job has come into the queue if we select it we'll get percentages on the rip
process as it's ripping the file to prepare it to be ready for printing i've got my preview already
and when my job finishes ripping you'll see that is in a waiting to print state and in my
print preview i have a nest preview that shows me how my job is going to print in relation to
my media width and show me how much length that job is going to take up when i print this job
if everything's good and i want to print the job all i need to do is click print now i'll get
my percentage and i can hear my printer already receiving the job and warming up to start printing
once your job's completed it will move from the jobs ready to print area
into the buffered section where if you need to bring it back up to the
jobs ready to print area anytime you can just simply drag and drop the job
and you can see that it's ready to print again
the next thing i'd like to take a look at is quick sets in onyx kwiksets are a way for you
to apply a certain number of settings to a job each time that a job is open using that quick set
inside of rip queue we have a couple different places to get to quick sets if you just want
to make edits to an existing quick set you can select edit quick sets from within rip queue
but if you're looking to create a new quick set you'll want to go into configure printer
say yes that it's going to shut down the server and you'll see that our default tab is the quick
sets tab inside of here i just have my default quick set for now but i'm going to select new
to create a new quick set when i do so i get the dialog for the new quick set and you can see all
of the different options that can be changed for a quick set things like media profiles print modes
color management settings cutter options for assigning cut marks when ripping files
operator instructions sizing rules to change the size of jobs that come through a quick set
you can set the number of copies per quick set you can do rotation
things like mirror reflect at print time change the bit depth for processing
and also some multi-page pdf options if we select the advanced options
we can see there's even more options that can be defined for a quick set there's tiling options we
can do color correction there are finishing options to apply grommet marks bleed trim
things of that nature in the print section we have options for job ticketing for workflow and output
modifications and then lastly pspdf includes some advanced postscript and pdf processing options
i'm going to back out of this and for the sake of this example i'm just going to create a quick set
that gives me six copies of an image and let's go ahead and add some rotation as well
i'm going to say rotate 90 degrees the important thing is i want to make sure and name my quick set
so we'll just put in here six copies 90 rotation
and click ok you can see i now have my new quick set and i'm going to click ok
now when i'm opening jobs in rip queue i can select that quick set from the quick set drop down
and those settings will automatically be applied to that job so i'm going to my open dialog box
and right here for my quick set drop down i'm going to make sure and select 6 copies 90 rotation
i'll select my file and i'll select
open as soon as the file comes into rip queue you can see already that my
number of copies is set to six and as the jaw begins to process and gives me my rip preview
i can see already that my job has rotated 90 degrees just like we expected it to
there's no limitation in onyx for how many different quick sets you can have
some examples would be using a quick set to define a media profile for each media profile that you
have and or print mode you can use quick sets to define pre-configured settings for applications
such as banners stickers canvas wraps tiled jobs or anything else that you may need a quick set for
to make it easier for you to streamline jobs through your production process
next we're going to take a look at job editor job editor is our preflighting application that
allows you to make modifications to files in real time i'm going to select one of the files
in my rip queue i'm going to right click it and i'm going to say open in job editor
my file will open in job editor and show me a preview of what that file looks like
inside of job editor there are main tabs up here that give you an idea of what functions are
possible inside of job editor printer and media allows you to change printer and media settings
as well as make modifications to the color management settings you can also select for
contour cutting selection here if this is a job that's going to have cutting involved with it
on the preview and size tab i can make adjustments to the size of my image
i can perform a crop on it i can rotate my image and i have some options here for multi-page pdf
the tiling tab is if you're going to be doing tiling for this job
once you enable it you have all the controls to do the tiling where you can split a large
job into multiple sections to fit on your printer under color correction i can make
adjustments to the file including primary color curves clicking on the tools shows all
of the different options we have for making adjustments to an image inside of job editor
on the finishing tab i have the ability to add my bleed my trim box i can assign grommet marks
and then we have a general marks tab for things like registration marks crop outlines
and even custom sewing and folding marks this is also where you would control the print label
information as well as some options for generating a contour path for cutting automatically and then
finally on the print tab is where i can change some of my print setup options change the job name
adjust the number of copies and then of course submit my job to rip queue
in this video let's make a couple of adjustments to the file i'm going to go to my preview and size
tab and i'm going to say i want this file to print 50 percent scale so you can see that my image size
has changed and then let's say we want to make some adjustments to the colors i'm gonna come in
and add twenty five percent cyan as well as twenty five percent magenta if you notice in real time
it's giving me a preview of what those adjustments look like i'm going to come to the tools section
we're going to come into the color and gray levels and i'm going to adjust the contrast by 21 percent
all of that looks good i'm going to come to the print tab and i'm going to click submit
once i'm back in rip queue my job will now re-rip and apply those new settings
and after completed ripping my job is now previewing as part of the print preview
now that we've got a couple jobs in our rib cue i've gone ahead and bumped the number of
copies up on this particular job so that we can illustrate how nesting works inside of rip queue
so by default when i look over here at my placement strategy setting
it's set to print jobs individually if we want to nest jobs together we have a couple different
options i select the drop down and i can select conserve media you'll see in real time that our
print preview is going to change conserve media nest jobs together in the most efficient manner
to reduce waste as best as possible so you can see even though my jobs are in a different order
they're nesting in the most efficient way possible
coming back to our placement strategy options we're going to select group jobs together
and you can see once again that my nest will update to reflect how the jobs are going to print
group jobs together will nest jobs based on the order that they are listed inside of rip queue
the next one is print jobs individually which will only nest one job at a time the top job in
rip queue so if i were to take this job and move it up in priority you'll see my print preview
is going to nest this job with the six copies instead of the horizontal job with the five copies
and the last option is futoba discus or flexa cutter marks this placement strategy is going
to add cut marks for xy cutters such as the fattoba discus or flexa cutters
so for the sake of this i want to use group jobs together
i've got my nest that's updated here and i want these five copies the horizontal copies
to print prior to the six vertical copies so i'm just going to move them up in the queue
you can see my nest updates in real time that looks good to me i'm going to click print now
both of my jobs status changes to printing and the jobs are being sent to my printer the last
item we're going to discuss in this video is printing a cut job when ripping and printing
a cut file in onyx there are two key factors the first is that the file is set up correctly with
a spot color inside of it denoting what the cut paths are the second is to make sure that when the
job is in rip queue it has the correct contour cutter marks assigned to it prior to printing
one really nice resource in our samples file is we have a folder named cutting
and inside of that cutting folder is a cut contour sample
i highly recommend using this file when setting up your cutting workflow for the first time
i'm going to select the cut contour sample and i'm going to select to open it in rape cue
once my file is done ripping i'm going to do like we did before
and i'm going to take it into job editor
inside of job editor the first thing i'm going to notice is these pink lines
this is a preview of the cut path that we're recognizing inside of this file
on the printer and media tab where i have my contour cutter selection you can see i have
the check mark for preview cut path this is on by default i can check this option to turn on and off
the cut path preview as long as everything looks like you expect it to the next thing you want to
do is select the contour cutter that you're going to be cutting this file with in this
drop down you can see these are all the different manufacturers and cutter types that we support in
the onyx software for demonstration purposes i'm just going to select the graphtec cutter
at this point you would make any other changes necessary to this file in job editor
but if you don't need any of those you can select print and submit the job to rip queue
once my file is done ripping the first thing i want you to notice is in the cutter heading
i have graphtec cutter assigned to this job the second thing is that if you look closely
on this print preview which can be enlarged with this button here
you can see that there's been some white space added in my nest preview around my image
this is showing me that the area for the barcode and the cutter marks is being accounted for
and that's where they're going to print when my job prints
i'm going to click close on the print preview and i'll send this to my printer
after your job's completed printing you'll see the barcode and cutter
marks are on the outside of that job the next step would be to launch cut server
the first time you launch customer it's going to ask you to add a cutter
we chose the graphtech marks for printing our job so i'm going to add one of the graphtech cutters
after adding the cutter you can see i have my cutter in the left hand section of cut server here
and there's already a job if i select that job you can see
it's the job we just printed so i know that my cut file created
one more important step before cutting this job is we want to come back into the configure
cutter section we want to configure the port settings for our particular cutter
after you've done that correctly you are now ready to select the job
load it on the cutter and select cut now for the cutter to go scan the marks and cut the file
thanks for watching this video which was a quick overview of how to use the onyx software for more
in-depth videos on features and functions in the onyx software please see the onyx tv youtube page