Features and Beneï¬ts of Onyx®
i-cut® Workflow Solution:
Full-Featured Onyx® i-Cut® Workflow Solution
Take out the manual labor of your existing
Never before has contour cutting been so easy and productive. To help you with the
workflow
success of your cutting workflow, Onyx Graphics has partnered with Mikkelsen Graphic
Spend less time training staff, easily train new
Engineering, Inc. (MGE), makers of automated digital cutting systems, to bring you
the Onyx® ProductionHouse� i-cut® Workflow. A simple three step process, the i- staff
cut workflow is more proï¬table and easier than anything else you’ll ï¬nd on the market.
Expand and add value to your business
Increase your productivity, scale, tile, and nest your jobs, and get great calibrations and
Save time and resources by having one easy
color all with one simpliï¬ed universal workflow.
workflow from your RIP to your printer(s) to your
cutter
Quality Results Print from any printer - Onyx Graphics offers the
You can count on the Onyx i-Cut most extensive list of printer drivers and media
Workflow Solution to provide you with
proï¬les available on the market today
consistant high quality results. The ï¬nal
products can range from floor graphics, Interactively scale, crop, and rotate images right
ofï¬ce binders, mounted photographic from ProductionHouse - your cutter marks
images, POP displays, signage, banners,
automatically adjust
textiles, decals, and much more.
Reduce ink consumption and media spoilage and
save valuable time with nesting features
Use barcode functionality to automatically scan
preset cut paths once your job is ready to cut
Take the guesswork out of color management by
using ProductionHouse’s simple ICC workflow
Consistent color over multiple print devices
� even across different printer brands
i-Cut® Digital Die Cutting Shorter set-up time means more time for cutting
Cutters and feeders come in 12 different sizes, ranging from the 31� x 31� S-800, ideal Curve support directly in ProductionHouse
for cutting smaller OEM decals and overlays, to the large 86� x 118� XL-3000, for cutting
i-scriptâ„? language support
large POP graphics and outdoor signage. Combined with 11 tool options, tailor made
systems are assembled to solve any challenge. Materials from thin paper to 1� corrugated Support for up to 10 cut layers (for bevelling,
cardboard can be processed. Creasing, scoring, routing, engraving, and laser cutting are embossing, die-cuts, stickers, kiss-cuts, etc.)
added possibilities.
Onyx® ProductionHouse�
The ProductionHouse feature set was
speciï¬cally designed to solve all of your
biggest pains—avoiding productiondown-
time, achieving better color, and holding
onto a loyal customer base. No matter
what printers you have, or how many, Pro-
ductionHouse will increase your produc-
tivity, give you better color, and help you
increase your business.
Dynamic Workflow Solutions for Digital Print Environments
Three Fast and Easy Steps
Cut
Create RIP & Print
2 3
Print From Any Printer, Cut on the I-Cut®
Deï¬ne Cut Paths
The ï¬rst step is to prepare your ï¬le for Prepare It delivers ready-to-print EPS, PS or PDF ï¬les directly to the Onyx ProductionHouse
contour cutting. To prepare your ï¬le, RIP Queue. Onyx Graphics offers unequalled support for new and popular printer models
ï¬rst you must deï¬ne the cut path in a from all of the leading printer manufacturers. ProductionHouse offers one easy workflow that
vector-based drawing program such as gets you great color on all of your devices. All of your jobs follow the same easy workflow and
Adobe Illustrator® or CorelDRAW®. all of your printer operators use the same workflow regardless of the output device.
The cut-path may be as simple or
complex as you desire–it can range from Tile
a circle around a bitmap image or an
Apply custom tiling to your oversized prints directly in ProductionHouse. After specifying the
outline of script text.
number of tiles, ProductionHouse automatically applies a continuous contour cutting path
across each tile. It will even automatically create a cut path for tile overlaps and other tile cut
Prepare-It� Workflow marks.
Prepare-It software gives you the ability
to streamline your ï¬le preparation by Barcode
automating many manual tasks, such as:
ProductionHouse creates and assigns i-cut barcodes for every
Customized Hotfolders help you job you print. Simply place the completed print on the cutter
create the perfect workflow for your which scans the barcode. The cutter automatically reads the
print-to-cut production barcode and grabs the necessary cut script and knows exactly
Generation of optimized cut data how and where to cut the image.
directly from clipping paths, line art,
text, borders, etc.
Automatic and intelligent placing of
register marks in both print and cut
ï¬les - i.e. on long jobs, panels and
Nest Jobs and Copies
along complicated shapes
Reduce ink consumption and media spoilage by nesting
Compensate cut paths inside or
your images. ProductionHouse applies cutting paths to
outside
every job you send. You can even preview the nested
Easy and fast selection of cut paths
jobs directly in the application.
and selection of cutter tools; kiss-cut,
through-cut, routing, creasing, etc.
©2004 Onyx Graphics. All rights reserved. PosterShop, PosterGenie, Onyx, and the Onyx glyph are registered trademarks of Onyx Graphics. ProductionHouse is a trademark
of Onyx Graphics. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. i-cut is a registered trademark of Mikkelsen Graphic Engineering, Inc. All other product
names, company names, marks, logos, and symbols referenced herein may be the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Features of products are
subject to change.
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