in these videos I'm going to be guiding you through installing your onyx software the first
thing you want to do is make sure that your onyx license key is plugged in this is the USB dongle
that you receive from us when you purchased your software and that needs to be plugged in the
entire time during your install and when you're running the software for everything to function
properly you may have also received from us a thumb drive with a metal swivel top on it this
is your installation software and it only needs to be plugged in while you're actually performing the
install go ahead and plug that into your computer and then find install onyx dot exe and launch it
to begin the installation if for any reason you don't have the thumb drive you can download our
software from our website at onyx GFX comm we have both current and previous versions available in
the download section there the file you download from our website is a self-extracting executable
file so when you launch it the first thing it's going to ask you is where to extract those files
to it's going to extract that out and once the extraction process is complete to the installation
will begin automatically when the onyx Installer launches take a minute to review the installation
requirements listed here and make sure you meet all of those you'll also see some flags on this
screen these will bring you to installation guides in different languages which can also
walk you through the installation process once you click the install button it's going to ask
you you view the License Agreement so go ahead and read through that and if you agree click I
agree and then yes to continue on our next step is going to be installing the licensing drivers
and once those drivers are installed it's going to automatically detect your license key if for
any reason the installer doesn't detect your key at this point it's going to pop up a window saying
that it couldn't find the key and offering to install non key components this gives you the
option install items that don't require license key like cout server if you want to install all
the components like your rip-queue and java it also and not just the ones that don't require
make sure you do not continue beyond this step it's not Senor key for some reason so make sure
that it's plugged into the computer and that you're licensed for the version of Onyx that
you're trying to install and then hit retry to search for your license again by default onyx
is going to look for the drive with the most space available on it and try to install there
it's generally not a good idea to try installing software onto an external hard drive so if that's
your largest drive or if there's another reason why I wanted to install to a different hard drive
go ahead and change that here just change the drive letter that's listed but keep the
directory structure behind that intact it's also a good idea at this point to expand the options
section here to make sure you're installing all the components that you want to install once
you're satisfied that you've got everything set up the way you want right here go ahead and click
the install button to continue or if you're doing an upgrade to this button will say upgrade repair
instead if you didn't install any printers earlier you'll be prompted to install a printer once the
installation is complete on this screen you'll have the option to access the printer and profile
download manager this will allow you to download any printer drivers that weren't included on your
thumb drive for any printers that we support start out by picking the version of Onyx that
you running it's very important that this matches the version you actually have installed and just
go through your printer manufacturer printer model to find the printer you need to install the driver
for once you found the printer you'll be shown a list of all the media profiles and we have
pre-made and available for that printer go ahead and check the boxes next to any ones that you need
I'm just going to be checking one box for right now and then click on download now it's going to
pop up with a window that asks you to create a printer install this window is just asking
you where to save this file to let's save it to the desktop or somewhere else where it's easy
to find it later on now that that's downloaded we want to browse and find that file in the install
printer window so just going to hit browse go to my desktop and select my printer install file at
this point we're almost done the only thing left to do is to configure onyx to communicate with our
printer I'm connected over Ethernet so I'm going to pick tcp/ip and then type in the address for
my printer right U and that's it we now have onyx installed and we're up and ready to go