Reliable High-Production Throughput
When you simply cannot afford to have your printers offline – for even a short time – you can’t afford to be without ProdutionHouse. You’ll find Onyx Workflow products in more high-production environments than any other RIP product.

Superior Contour Cutting Workflow
Printing and cutting has never been easier or more profitable. Now you can take standard PostScript® files with contour cut paths and print them on any printer, then cut on any of a range of industry contour cutting devices, including Graphtec™, Mutoh® Ultima™, Roland®, Summa®, and Generic cutters. You can also use standard inkjet Print and Cut devices from Graphtec® and Roland® to easily print-and-cut jobs.

Whether you’re already offering print and cut services or don’t know anything about it, ProductionHouse offers the best workflow. Not only can you nest, resize and copy contour cutting print jobs, but you can also tile them right within the ProductionHouse workflow. The RIP-Queue automatically adjusts the contour files and handles all of the details.

Part of the magic of the ProductionHouse cutting workflow is the new CUT-Server, which steps your production operators through the cutting workflow.

The Onyx RIP-Queue maximizes your flexibility when printing and cutting contours, by completely handling the printing of "registration marks" recognized by many "electric eye" cutters. The RIP-Queue prints these specific marks needed by your contour cutter on any of the hundreds of different printers that it supports. Registration is then automatic when you use the Onyx CUT-Server to cut out the job after printing.

An optional barcode reader can automate the process even further, so operators can get more cut jobs out flawlessly.

Optional i-Cut® Support (PDF Document)

Contour Cutter Workflow (PDF Document)

Web Portal for Web-based Print Job Management
Manage your print jobs from any computer on your network with a web browser. You can also submit jobs from a PC, Mac, or Unix-based compatible web browser on your network.

ProductionHouse Features and Benefits

Great Color

• Powerful, easy calibration of any media substrate
• Ink control tools that let you take advantage of the full gamut of your printers
• Easy ICC workflow
• Re-calibrate your printers quickly without having to rebuild your ICC color profiles
• Consistent color over multiple print devices — even across different printer brands
• Excellent black generation and spot-color matching

Universal Workflow

• Work across platforms and drive multiple printers from various manufacturers
• Interactively scale, crop, and rotate images
• Apply custom tiling to oversized prints
• Make color corrections and replace color – or a range of colors – from Preflight
• Import and apply custom ICC profiles
• More Productivity
• Visually preview files to avoid costly reprinting
• RIP and simultaneously print bitmapped files for faster throughput
• Fast reliable PostScript RIP
• RIP multiple PostScript and raster files at the same time
  

Integrated Color Management
Onyx ProductionHouse gives you integrated color management for all of your printers. Instead of relying on an external third-party CMM, ProductionHouse has a fully integrated color management system specifically designed for large and grand format printing.
The included Media Manager tool provides quality and consistency by offering a system of controls such as ink and media configurations, calibration, profile management, etc. The optional Profile Generator tool adds the capability to build outstanding ICC profiles.

Screening Patterns and Custom Screening
In addition to dot patterns like Stochastic and Error Diffusion, ProductionHouse offers a wide range of screen dot patterns that simulate traditional screen printing. ProductionHouse comes with a set of default screens for silk screening, newsprint and SWOP®. You can also create your own custom screening dot patterns with custom dot size, screen angle, and frequency. Use these features to create precise rosette screens or take advantage of other proprietary screening technologies including Line Screen, Smooth Screen, and Ordered Dither screening.

In-house Contract Proofing Workflow and Tools
Production printing is all about keeping your print buyers happy with your print services. ProductionHouse can improve your print service by helping you communicate color with your print buyers. The ProductionHouse RIP-Queue workflow can automatically print color proofs of any job to any proofing printer. So with just a simple click you can offer your print buyers color contract and concept proofs of their large-format jobs without affecting your production.

ProductionHouse proofing tools also include media and ICC profile analysis tools that tell you how big your media color gamuts are and how they compare. With Media Analyzer you can view and compare media color gamuts in 3-D animation as well as qualify media and measure gamuts before calibration or profiling. You can also see gamut analysis reports that list all of your spot colors and exactly how well each of your media profiles can match those colors. Another tool even allows you to proof and print PostScript® spot color separation files on any printer.

In-House Proofing Workflow and Tools (PDF Document)

PosterColor™
PosterColor™ is a proprietary color rendering technology that gives CMYK posters brilliant-looking saturated colors when you apply ICC profiles. Many print operators know that applying ICC profiles will dull-down the colors in CMYK print jobs. With PosterColor™ you get the gray-balancing and hue matching benefits of ICC color management, but with the fully-saturated look that your printer inks can actually achieve.

Suggested Minimum Requirements
Operating System:
- Windows 2000® Server w/ SP3
- Windows 2000-Pro® w/ latest service pack
- Windows XP Pro® w/ latest service pack
CPU:
- Intel Pentium III
- Athalon, 1.5 Ghz or higher
- Dual CPU for multiple RIPs
Storage:
- 40 Gb Hard Drive
- 1 Gb RAM per CPU
Video Display: 1280 X 768 16-bit color
One USB Port required for Security Key
DVD-ROM drive suggested, 40x CD-ROM Minimum Required