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What’s New>> Hot Shops>> ONYX@Work>> Product Feature>> Tech Tip>> Max-imize>>August 2009 Issue

What’s New:ONYX News You Can Use

See PrepEdge Pro in Action

“We were introduced to ONYX PrepEdge Pro software at a Proveer Open House andcan’twaittouseourcopyofthesoftwaretoimproveourworkflowandtackle thetilingworkonabigbillboardprojectwejusttookon.” Bullet Autographics, Inc. Belleville, Ontario

Have you had a chance to see PrepEdge Pro in action yet? Other print shops are saving time and money using this new prepress file preparation tool, shouldn’t you also?

Let ONYX show you in a short webinar how PrepEdge Pro tackles your toughest prepress file prepara-tion tasks quickly and easily. Visit www.onyxprepedge.com today for a complete list of webinar dates and times! A Recession Parable

And in case a reminder is needed, there is the story of the old man who sold hot dogs. He lived by the side of the road, slightly sight and hearing-impaired, so he seldom read newspapers, heard what was on the radio or saw what was on TV. But, he sold good hot dogs, and so, did a thriving business.

One day, his son came home from university and felt the need to expand on what he knew. “Father,” he said, “don’t you know we’re in the middle of a recession. All the papers say so. The domestic situation is bad; the European situation is worse.”

“Well,” thought the old hot dog seller, “my son’s been around. He reads the papers, he hears the news. He must be right.”

Pretty soon, the story goes, the old man cuts back on his orders for wieners, buns and condiments, and pretty soon after that, the business slows down to a crawl. Before long, the old man is doing no business at all, and closes down his hot dog stand within a matter of months.

“You’re right, son,” the old man concludes, “we’re in the middle of a terrible recession.”

Don’t stop investing. Sign up for the free, fifteen minute webinar and learn how ONYX PrepEdge Pro can give your print shop a competitive edge, as it has other print shops around the world.

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Hot Shops and Cool Stuff: A Monthly Spotlight on Innovative ONYX Partners

The World’s Largest Postcard

As part of the marketing campaign “Krefeld – It’s Nice Here”, the city of Krefeld, Germany ordered a giant postcard at Kürten + Lechner GmbH. The advertising campaign asked lo-cals to send in photographs for use on a postcard illustrating the beauty of Krefeld. The response was over-whelming and 7,813 photos were submitted.

The giant postcard, comprised of 6,367 of the submitted images, was 42.69 m2 (459.511 ft2) in size. It was stamped and franked at Stadthaus, 15 minutes from Krefeld’s city centre, and was addressed to the mayor from the people of Krefeld. The postcard itself weighed over 300 kg (661.386 lbs) and was transported on a lorry specially designed for this purpose.

Guinness Book of World Records adjudicator Kelly Garrett and the local police escorted the postcard to the city center where it was signed for and received by the mayor of Krefeld, Gregor Kathstede on May 10th, 2009.

With this postcard, the city of Krefeld entered into the Guinness Book of World Records and easily beat the Canadian National Defence Headquarters, who previouosly held the record with a postcard mea-suring 28.8 m2 (310 ft2) since 1994.

The printing company, Kürten + Lechner GmbH, in Berglisch, Germany, has more than 250 employees and was founded in 1896. They are very well known for this type and size of project. For example, they produced an extraordinarily large print that filled 440 m2 of advertising space for the Roland-Rechtschutz-Versicherungs AG insurance company at the Frankfurt airport.

“ONYX Graphics, on which Kürten + Lechner have relied since 2000, gives enormous support for such extraordinary productions,” said Gunther Fells, Manager of the Digital Printing Department.

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ONYX@Work:Improving Productivity and Profitability with ONYX

ONYX Hits It Out of the Park for Car Wrap Printers

In today’s competitive market no one can afford to be left behind when it comes to technology. At Car-wraps®, Inc., we have always taken seriously the need to be up to date on all of our printing equipment, computer hardware, and software of all types.

As a graphic consultant, I’m always hearing stories from printers telling me of their struggles with color management and poor work flow, most often resulting in loss of productivity and revenue.

One of the most underestimated, misunderstood, yet critical pieces of equipment a printer can possess is a quality RIP.

When I talk to new and old printers alike they always describe the same frustrating experiences and the first thing I ask them is: “What kind of RIP software are you running?” The answers are almost always the same. They either use a RIP that was bundled with their printer, or they use a certain RIP not de-signed with the vehicle wrap printer in mind.

Since I first began in the print industry, it never ceased to amaze me how “primitive” and “user-un-friendly” RIP software seemed, compared to all of the other software and equipment available.

That is, until now.

The latest offerings from ONYX—in particular PrepEdge Pro and Production House, both lead the way for versatility, flexibility and ease of use.

My personal favorite feature is the ability to open an entire (Illustrator EPS) vehicle wrap file —all sides at once, and RIP each side without the need to crop or zoom in on a particular side of the vehicle. This allows us to see what we’re ripping without hiding the rest of the job. This is extremely helpful in plan-ning how you’ll nest your panels and limiting your waste and optimizing your form sizes ahead of time.

ONYX hit it out of the park. I encourage anyone who wants to save time, money and resources to invest in a good RIP, and it doesn’t get any better than ONYX. —Todd LaBrie, President, Carwraps, Inc.

Carwraps®,Inc.isaprivatelyheldcompanyheadquarteredinSouthernCaliforniawithinstallationser-vicesinLosAngeles,SanFrancisco,NewYork&Chicago.Carwrapsalsohasanextensivesalesaffili-atenetworkwithlocationsinnearlyeverymajorAmericancity.

Overthepastdecadehasprovidedservicestoavarietyofclientsineveryimaginableindustry-fromsomeof the largestagencies, corporationsand transportationcompanies, to small businessesandneighborhoodshopsacrossthecountry.Carwrapshasprovidedgraphicstoprintbrokers,thirdpartydealersandvarioussignshopswhichreselltheirvehiclewraps.

Carwrapshasalsostartedtrainingclassestoteachcompaniesjustgettingstartedinvehiclegraphics,orwhowanttobenefitfromCarwrapsexperienceandexpertiseinthisspecializedapplication.Tolearnmoreabouttheseclasses,aswellasCarwrapsexcitingnewvideotrainingseries,pleasegotohttp://carwraps.net/home/learn_to_wraporcontactToddLaBrieat1-866-972-7227x3.


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Product Feature Focus:Helping You Get the Most Out of Your Software

Built-in PANTONE® Library Automatically Matches Spot Colors

The integrated tables enable the ONYX RIP-Queue to automatically detect and match spot colors in PostScript® and PDF files that use the proper PANTONE® naming convention. This built-in capability saves operators time by eliminating manual input of color definitions, thereby reducing inaccuracies in the final output and increasing efficiency of the printing process.

All standard ONYX products include PANTONE spot color matching.

Tech Tip:Quick Tips for a Smooth Workflow Ease of Web Portal Case Tracking The new ONYX Web Portal is an exceptional tool for creating, tracking, and closing technical support cases. The Comments section of a case on the Web Portal are what make the process so efficient and easy to track. When you open a case with the Support Crew, an email is generated that notifies the Support Crew of the new case. From there, a Crew Member will comment on your case and you will be automatically notified of the comment. After reviewing the comment, you can close the case if your issue has been resolved, or simply make another comment and the correspondence will continue until the issue is resolved.

Max-imize Your Color:Tips from our Color Scientist Max Derhak

Rebuilding ICC profiles: Why and How?

In this month’s article we will discuss rebuilding of ICC profiles using Media Manager including the rea-sons one might want to rebuild an ICC profile and the procedure to do it.

Why Rebuild ICC profiles?

All owners of ProdutionHouse version 7.0 and later have the ability to rebuild any profile that has been created within Media Manager. (Users that have an earlier version, or are not using ProductionHouse can upgrade to the latest version of ProductionHouse by contacting [email protected]).

Before we get into the reasons for rebuilding ICC profiles, it is important to understand how rebuild-ing an ICC profile is different than recalibration. We discussed recalibration in details in the previous month’s newsletter and learned that it involves printing a set of patches and measuring them using a color device in order to maintain or get back to the state of printing achieved when calibration was first performed.





The ICC profile is built to characterize that particular state of printing. Hence it is important to recalibrate to make sure that the characterization (i.e. the ICC profile) is still valid.

Unlike recalibration or building an ICC profile from scratch, rebuilding an ICC profile in Media Manager does not require that you have a color measurement device or even print anything. When an ICC profile is rebuilt, the previous measurement data is re-used along with potentially modified profile generation options and any updated transformation logic (or algorithms) to re-create the ICC profiles. As a result of this, there are two basic reasons for rebuilding an ICC profile:

1. Changing the Profile Build options to achieve a different set of output objectivesThere are several settings in building an ICC profile that offer trade-offs between gamut size and output quality. Specific settings involve gamut mapping strategies, and black generation settings. Since there is not always a right answer to what the settings should be, being able to go into a previously built profile and change the options may allow one to optimize the output goals as needed.

(Note: Please refer to the ICC build options section of the Media Manager profiling guide ( http://onyxgfx.net/Wiki/ICC%20Build%20Options.html ) that gives an in-depth overview of several settings available when building an ICC profile with the ONYX profile generation engine.)

2. Taking advantage of improvements to the ICC profile generation engineThere are two separate parts to ICC color management - profile application (via a Color Management Module), and profile generation (via a profile generation engine). Improvements/changes to profile ap-plication (CMM) will apply to all profiles whenever they are used to process images. Improvements/changes to profile generation will only apply when new profiles are created or previous profiles are rebuilt. This is because the color transform logic used to build an ICC profile becomes part of the pro-file itself. Hence, to take advantage of improvements/changes in the profile generation engine, profiles need to be rebuilt. (Note: because of this it may be inadvisable to rebuild an ICC profile (initially created with a newer version of the software) with an older version of the software since improvements to the build engine will not be re-employed).

How to Rebuild ICC profiles

The recommended approach to “rebuild” a new ICC profile is performed without changing or replacing existing profiles. This can be achieved by making a copy of the current print mode and then rebuilding the profile in the copied mode. If you do not make a copy of current print mode then you will lose the existing profile when you rebuild on top of it. Thus it is important to first back-up the current print mode so that if the changes are unacceptable then you can go back to the previous settings.

(Note: Profiles that have been imported from other ICC profiling packages into Media Manager cannot be rebuilt using these methods. Please consult with the documentation of the other packages to deter-mine if a rebuild option is available and how to do it. If a profile is rebuilt in another package it will have to be re-imported into Media Manager before it can be used).


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Rebuilding a profile from a copied mode involves two steps. The first is to make a copy of the mode, and then rebuild the profile in the copied mode.

To copy a mode:

1. Run Media Manager.2. Ensure that you are working with the correct printer and then select “View Media Library”. 3. From this view, select the Media Group, Media, and mode that you want to copy. 4. Then press the “Make Copy” button on the right. 5. You will be asked to give the mode a new name. (Suggestion add “Copy” to the name). The mode has now been copied with a new name. To rebuild an existing profile:

1. From the “View Media Library” screen, Select the Media Group, Media, Mode, “ICC Color Matching Profiles”, and the ICC profile to be rebuilt. Then press the “Edit…” button on the right. 2. At this point you might be asked to select the appropriate profiling workflow. If this occurs, select the correct workflow for the print mode you are working with.3. The Profiling wizard will then be displayed with the ICC Profile step shown. Since the ICC profile has been previously built, the Print Swatch and Read Swatch buttons should be enabled. Press the Read Swatch option.4. A dialog titled “Build Profile – ICC Profile” is then displayed with the measurements used to build the ICC profile. Press the “Options…” button on the right to review/modify the ICC profile build settings.5. Make any desired changes in the Build Options dialog, and press OK when you are done.6. With profile build options in place you can then press the “Build” button on the right to rebuild the ICC profile. A Build Profile Progress dialog will then be displayed showing the progress of the profile build. After some time, the build will complete and the progress dialog will go away. (Note: For some printers there may be an option to build a named color profile table in the ICC profile step of the profiling wizard. Since the named color table is based upon the ICC profile it is advisable to also rebuild the named color table after rebuilding the ICC profile).7. The profile rebuild is complete, and the stop button (bottom-middle button with a square on it) an be pressed to exit the profiling wizard. A dialog will ask if you want to save the results of the session. Press the “Yes” button.8. At this point you can exit Media Manager and use the print mode with the newly rebuilt profile. Test the output of the profile. If you like the results and you made a copy of the print mode you can later go back into the View Media Library section of Media Manager, delete the old mode, and rename the new mode to be the same as the old mode.

Now that we have learned what rebuilding of ICC profiles is and the procedure to do it, in next month’s newsletter we will look at some of the benefits of rebuilding profiles using the soon to be released 7.3.2 version of ProductionHouse.


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