Onyx Graphics announces global availability of Onyx 22

A new drag-and-drop experience with tools for everyday automation

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Onyx 22 introduces a new drag-and- drop user experience for file management and Quick Set automation, smart job submission from design to print, artwork placement controls for flatbed and DTG printing, and easy-to-use tools for everyday automation. Photo Onyx Graphics

Onyx Graphics recently announced the global availability of Onyx 22, the company’s newest software version release of industry-leading wide-format RIP and print workflow software that was showcased at Fespa Global in Berlin, Germany. Onyx 22 introduces a new drag-and-drop user experience for file management and Quick Set automation, smart job submission from design to print, artwork placement controls for flatbed and DTG printing, and easy-to-use tools for everyday automation.

“Software has to be fast, reliable, and easy to use in today’s printing environment,” said Matt Crawford, director of Product Marketing at Onyx Graphics. “The tools, technology, and controls for everyday automation in Onyx 22 are designed for the modern user, and continue our vision in providing superior software solutions to print businesses across the globe.”

Onyx 22 also introduces color tools for increased color output accuracy and an all-new Onyx Color Reference Library to easily match color for any printer. This dynamic reference library highlights in-and-out of gamut colors and can be printed or used in Onyx software to know what colors are possible on each device and media combination.

Highlights of Onyx 22 include:

  • Drag-and-drop user experience for file handling
  • Drag-and-drop Quick Set automation
  • Smart job submission from design to print automation
  • Job placement tools for enhanced nesting
  • Auto-trim for flatbed and DTG printing
  • Automated image cropping using Quick Sets
  • Printer versioning and auto-backup
  • D65 10-degree observer ICC profile build options for textile printing
  • Snapshot color calibration for contone printers
  • The latest Adobe PDF Print Engine APPE 5.7 for fine line rendering

Onyx 22, covering the entire product portfolio of Onyx solutions including Onyx Thrive print workflow software, all Onyx RIP products, and Onyx Go subscription RIP products, is globally available. It is automatically provided to Onyx Go subscribers through a soft download product update, available to all Onyx Advantage customers by requesting a key update, and to all other customers through a license purchase. Onyx Graphics is providing a special promotion to upgrade. Visit www.onyxgfx.com for more information.

Leading the market since 1989, Onyx Graphics is dedicated to helping customers increase productivity, reduce costs, and gain a competitive edge with superior software solutions for the print industry. Innovative, productive, and delighted customers around the globe help motivate the company to develop and enhance its leading-edge technologies. Global channel partnerships and longstanding relationships with printer manufacturers position Onyx Graphics as a market leader in powerful, reliable, large format printing workflow and print business software solutions.

2023 promises an interesting ride for print in India

Indian Printer and Publisher founded in 1979 is the oldest B2B trade publication in the multi-platform and multi-channel IPPGroup. While the print and packaging industries have been resilient in the past 33 months since the pandemic lockdown of 25 March 2020, the commercial printing and newspaper industries have yet to recover their pre-Covid trajectory.

The fragmented commercial printing industry faces substantial challenges as does the newspaper industry. While digital short-run printing and the signage industry seem to be recovering a bit faster, ultimately their growth will also be moderated by the progress of the overall economy. On the other hand book printing exports are doing well but they too face several supply-chain and logistics challenges.

The price of publication papers including newsprint has been high in the past year while availability is diminished by several mills shutting down their publication paper and newsprint machines in the past four years. Indian paper mills are also exporting many types of paper and have raised prices for Indian printers. To some extent, this has helped in the recovery of the digital printing industry with its on-demand short-run and low-wastage paradigm.

Ultimately digital print and other digital channels will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future. For instance, there is no alternative to a rise in textbook consumption but this segment will only reach normality in the next financial year beginning on 1 April 2023.

Thus while the new normal is a moving target and many commercial printers look to diversification, we believe that our target audiences may shift and change. Like them, we will also have to adapt with agility to keep up with their business and technical information needs.

Our 2023 media kit is ready, and it is the right time to take stock and reconnect with your potential markets and customers. Print is the glue for the growth of liberal education, new industry, and an emerging economy. We seek your participation in what promises to be an interesting ride.

– Naresh Khanna

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