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Save Money, Save Time with ONYX Three-Year Support Packages

ONYX Advantage Support ProgramsONYX recently announced that its support packages – Advantage and Advantage Plus – are now available for three-year terms, which provide a savings of $190 (Advantage) and $290 (Advantage Plus) when you sign up for a three-year agreement.

Plus, you don’t have to hassle with renewing the support package each year and you can take advantage of all the software updates. The three-year agreements include…

Software Maintenance: This includes Major Version Upgrades (such as V1.x to V2.x) or Minor Version Updates (such as VX.1 to VX.2) and the newest Printer Permissions and Options for the Product Line of the covered License Key.

Any Driver Any Time: No-hassle add-on of new Drivers any time you need them. This includes any non-standard Driver for your PosterShop or ProductionHouse package, including Grand Format.

Live! Web-Based Training (new): Choose any three of a variety of instructor-led online sessions for the training that best suits your needs. Visit the ONYX Website to register for your Web-Based Trainingat http://onyxgfx.com/index.php?area=support&subarea=trainingofferings

Free Set of Software Discs: For any new Software Version of the Licensed Product Line.

FREE Hardware Key Replacement: For any broken or defective Key covered by the Service Plan.

ONYX Service Web Portal Access: Find Solutions, Log and Review Cases with Technical Support online.  Visit http://onyxgfx.com/support to Log In. If you do not already have a Login for the Web Portal, E-Mail Support directly at support@onyxgfx.com. You can access information on using the Web Portal by clicking here: Using the ONYX Web Portal.

For more information about the new three-year Advantage and Advantage Plus packages, contact a LexJet customer specialist at 800-453-9538. And, for a roundup of all the ONYX products and services available at LexJet, click here.

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Special Pricing Deal When You Convert to ONYX Thrive Workflow Software

ONYX announced new incentive pricing available at LexJet when you convert from ONYX PosterShop or ProductionHouse to ONYX Thrive, a full-featured, scalable PDF network-based workflow solution based on the Adobe PDF Print Engine.

Large format print workflow software
One of ONYX Thrive's big benefits is scalability: customize your print workflow and easily grow with business demands.

Conversion incentive pricing is good through March 29, with considerable savings when you convert from PosterShop or ProductionHouse to Thrive. If you trade in your ONYX PosterShop version 10.x for ONYX Thrive 642, for instance, you receive a value of $2,500. Trade in ONYX ProductionHouse version 10.x for ONYX Thrive 862 and receive a value of $4,000. There is also special pricing available for ONYX versions 6.5 and 7.x.

Thrive offers print shops a cost-effective way to grow their business by spreading out the workflow across multiple computers and streamlining the Adobe print process. Therefore, Thrive is more easily scalable as the print shop adds more printers and grows their business.

Plus, you can drive production from a mobile device, like an iPad, with the new Thrive Production Manager. With Thrive Production Manager on a secure network you simply open a browser, point it to the RIP Queue, and away you go, wherever you are.

To find out all the conversion pricing, and for more information about the incentive, contact a LexJet customer specialist at 800-453-9538.

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Add a Printer to Your RIP for No Charge with this ONYX Thrive Promo

Printer production workflow softwareONYX announced an SGIA show special that starts now: Purchase Thrive 211 by Nov. 30 and you can add another printer to the RIP software at no cost, a $1,295 value. The SGIA Expo is in Las Vegas this year and runs from Oct. 18-20, but you can take advantage of this deal through LexJet any time between now and Nov. 30.

Thrive is an Adobe-based workflow product for production printing. The big news here is the ability with Thrive to run on multiple computers with one license, and Thrive’s Adobe PDF Print Engine.

“One of our customers was trying to drive six printers with one ProductionHouse license, but now with Thrive they can spread it out to other computers without having to buy multiple licenses and they’ve been able to double their production,” explains Mark Maynard, ONYX general manager for the Americas. “With PDF files, sometimes you have to go into Illustrator and flatten the file or save it as a TIFF, so there’s an extra step involved in that case. Since Thrive is an Adobe-based workflow solution it RIPs the file the first time around without having to do additional work to the file.”

Maynard adds that Thrive offers print shops a cost-effective way to grow their business by spreading out the workflow across multiple computers and streamlining the Adobe print process. Therefore, Thrive is more easily scalable as the print shop adds more printers and grows their business.

Plus, you can drive production from a mobile device, like an iPad, with the new Thrive Production Manager. With Thrive Production Manager on a secure network you simply open a browser, point it to the RIP Queue, and away you go, wherever you are.

ONYX Thrive comes in three different configurations: 211 for $3,295 (two RIPs, one large-format or grand-format printer and one Job Editor, formerly known as Preflight), 642 for $6,995 (six RIPs, four printers, two Job Editors) and 862 for $8,995 (eight RIPs, six printers, two Job Editors).

With ONYX Thrive, you can also add ONYX Advantage, a service program that includes software maintenance and Live! Web-based training – where you choose any three of a variety of instructor-led online sessions for the training that best suits your needs – and personalized training – a  two-hour personalized and custom Web-based training session for your print shop that provides the confidence that operators are maximizing the performance and automation of your ONYX Thrive workflow.

For more information about ONYX Thrive and ONYX Advantage, and to help figure out which products will work best for your business, contact a LexJet customer specialist at 800-453-9538.

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Save a Bundle with an HP Latex Printer and Onyx PosterShop X10 Bundle

Large format inkjet printer and software bundleLexJet is offering a bundle package that includes the HP Designjet L26500 61-inch Latex Printer and ONYX PosterShop X10 RIP software. This special offer provides significant savings over purchasing each separately and is available only for a limited time.

To find out the details of this bundle and more about pricing and other incentives, contact a LexJet customer specialist at 800-453-9538. Also, be sure to check out the videos at LexJet’s YouTube channel that provide more information and how-to’s for ONYX X10 and HP printers:

ONYX X10 Playlist

HP Printers and Workflow Playlist

FYI… The latest version of ONYX PosterShop includes the following enhancements, and more, for the wide format inkjet printing workflow…

  • G7 grayscale calibration support and integration with Curve2 Software, which is a proof-to-print process based on a set of color criteria developed to ensure digital print technology elements – RIP, printer, media and ink – can reproduce a typical offset lithography sheet.
  • Optional JDF module add-on for facilitating automated print workflows
  • Multi-page PDF splitting workflow in RIP queue with Quick Sets where the ONYX RIP-Queue can process each different page size and optimize page nesting for maximum media savings and speed performance since each page can be processed and sent to the printer individually, without having to wait for the entire PDF file to be processed
  • Added CMYK compatibility mode
  • Print-and-cut media compensation
  • New measurement device support, including low-resolution swatch support for i1, new Barbierie Spectro LFP textile device and Barbierie 8mm aperture for supported devices
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A Once in a Blue Moon Point of Sale Display

Point of sale display printed for Blue Moon beers

It happens once in a blue moon… That is, a blue moon. No, the moon doesn’t literally turn blue. Technically, it means there’s an extra full moon once every two and a half years, on average. This month, Aug. 31 to be exact, is the next blue moon, which won’t show up again until 2015.

This relatively rare event was the perfect opportunity to promote – what else? – Blue Moon beers. It also happens to coincide with a MillerCoors display design contest, so account representatives Anthony Copetillo and Vinnie Montemurro and P.O.P. shop manager Steve Lalio of The Nackard Companies in Flagstaff, Ariz., collaborated on a display concept for a Wal-Mart in Show Low, Ariz.

Printing a point of sale beer display“MillerCoors put out a creative display incentive for August and September, which included Blue Moon. They showed us some examples of a full theme, and I thought this concept would be perfect for the season. It also gave us an opportunity to educate customers about all the characteristics of Blue Moon beers,” says Copetillo. “I give Steve some ideas and the points I want to see on the display, then he comes up with the design theme. Steve always has great ideas that are exactly what I’m looking for, so there are rarely any changes to his design.”

Lalio’s design is divided into three parts to comprise the full backdrop behind the beer display – in-depth information about the different Blue Moon beers (year-round, seasonal and specialty), a centerpiece to draw attention and illuminating copy about what a blue moon is – plus the phases of the blue moon that “float” in front of the backdrop.

“We submitted it to MillerCoors and it caused some ripples. They were happy to see that we’re educating the customers about Blue Moon,” says Copetillo. “I’ve been doing this for 18 years and now more than ever people want to know what food to pair it with, the flavors and the characteristics of each beer.”

Printing point of sale display for beer companies
Here's a similar display conceived and executed by the Three Musketeers of The Nackard Companies: account reps Anthony Copetillo and Vinnie Montemurro and P.O.P. shop manager Steve Lalio.

The backdrop was printed on a Canon iPF8000S on LexJet 8 Mil PolyGloss Banner in seven 36″ panels, which were then stapled to the wall. Lalio says he designed it in Photoshop and used the ONYX RIP to properly tile it so that it could be spliced into one seamless backdrop. The total size is 21 feet wide by six feet high.

The moon phases, which dangle from fishing line a few feet in front of the backdrop, were printed on LexJet TOUGHcoat Water-Resistant Self Adhesive Polypropylene, laminated with LexJet 3 Mil Luster UV Standard Low Melt and applied to a heavy card stock.

“I used the PolyGloss Banner for the backdrop because I knew the Blue Moon and fall colors would really pop out with that material. We designed it so that it was informative about not only the beer, but the blue moon,” adds Lalio.

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Catch up with ONYX and Save $1,200

RIP software saleSave $1,200 by upgrading your ONYX 6.x to X10.2. The Legacy Promotion, good through Sept. 30, is for ProductionHouse and PosterShop 6.x users who would like to upgrade to X10.2 with an Advantage Service Agreement Plus Phone Support for a promotional price of $1,295, a $1,200 savings.

ONYX 6.x users can upgrade with an Advantage Service Agreement for a promotional price of $995, a $1,200 savings as well.

The Service Agreement will keep your software up-to date with new releases and updates; no-hassle add-on of new drivers anytime you need them; and you will also receive three sessions of online web-based training of your choice to best suits your needs.

For more information about this limited-time promotion, contact a LexJet account specialist at 800-453-9538. And, click here to see all of the Onyx X10 how-to videos at LexJet’s YouTube channel.