All that has been done, nothing is through Epson. Epson only supplies Onyx with the purchase of a new printer.
I called Onyx and gave them my outdated Onyx serial number. They will give me a $500 credit towards the upgrade to the latest Onyx Rip.
A $3000 program. Would have loved to give Imageprint a try but they do not support any commercial solvent printers.
For now the Epson Edge Print Rip works. As soon as I get the profiles from lexjet and Breathing Color I will see how good they are.
They may just be good enough. What I don't have is a print cut solution for vinyl and my Graphtec ce-7000.
Most of this software is Pc only and it is a true nightmare. I must jump back and forth between different software in Parallels.
That is why I may very well end up with Onyx as it is one of the best print cut solutions on the market.
It seems you may not have the best understanding of the tech along with workflow and some potential revenue.
If you already have Edge Print running your printer as you say, appreciate it’s benefit of using the actual Adobe print engine which is guaranteed to RIP Adobe fonts and Adobe effects properly such as transparency and PDF options, especially. Consider costs of whatever license fee a RIP developer must ante-up, to say, Adobe, not to mention another premium fee involving anything Pantone, if applicable.
Consider the benefit of having an affordable PC drive printers and cutters while a much more expensive Mac is used to prepare files. The only particular note for the PC is for it to have a good deal of disk space because RIP files become quite large. As for preparing files on the Mac, I’m certain a great deal of time will be spent here, especially in Illustrator or the like.
Your new production capability has potential for vastly greater business opportunities. Think big, especially when purchasing materials because all such things are an unusual challenge these days. If Edge is already running your machine, waste no time making sellable products.
Edge uses an all-encompassing EMX file as a “profile.” An ICC profile is just a component of the package. Onyx uses an OML file in the same way. Those files drive practically every parameter of the printer not just with ink load and color accuracy but with screening, head pass, print size compensation, heater settings, and much more. Lexjet currently offers OML profiles for your machine. If you’re waiting for them to generate EMX profiles, consider what, and how, they need to go about that.
I recommend you download readily available EMX files for your machine and materials using the Epson Edge Dashboard as Epson intends. Because you’ve just had your machine serviced and you say it prints beautifully, you should be in good shape. Also realize that inkjet media may differ greatly with regard to their substrate, but many have the same coating among them and, therefore, can use the same printer settings. Further know, there a some tomes out there full of individual ICC profiles representing different media but are really a single profile only named differently.
Good luck.
