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Onyx 25 Issues

ikarasu

Premium Subscriber
Anyone upgrade to Onyx 25 yet?

We went from 22 to 25 because I wanted horizontal barcodes on our flatbed printer, and it wasnt supported in 22... Makes our workflow suck.


So far I've wasted almost a full roll of wrap media due to glitches - Onyx will only add the cutmarks to the first page in a multi page PDF... Any other page and it wont add them, or even warn you that there isnt a cut mark. Of course we didn't figure that out until we went to cut and half of the cutlines werent there.

E-mailed onyx and got a "We have added you to the ticket for updates, this is a known issue" That was the day after onyx 25 dropped... So July? It's nice that they knew such a huge bug was in it and didn't let anyone know... And anytime I ask for updates, or if they had any eta / plan on a fix... I just get crickets. Glad I paid $1500ish for the upgrade!

We always use multiple page PDFS - A customer will order 10 different labels, hundreds of each...and they'll be in 1 PDF With multiple artboards, it keeps the file system clean. I've probably forgot 5 times now that it doesnt work and wasted material... ontop of the full roll of vehicle graphics.

So far thats the only major glitch I've noticed. Well, I've found if I put horizontal barcodes on both sides of a flatbed the print will fail.... Or if I just put it on the right side it'll fail... If I only do the left it's fine. Not sure if its a glitch or not, and havent played with it much since our print cut workflow is completely broken.... was hoping it wouldnt take them so long to fix it, but a few months is ridiculous for a major bug like that... I'm likelly going to drop down to onyx 24 until its fixed, just wish they were more communicative!
 
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vinylpeople

New Member
Thank you for the warning about the barcodes. We haven't integrated barcodes into our workflow yet but we've been meaning to. It does feel like every new version of Onyx will introduce some new bugs and glitches that persist until the next version that you have to shell out money for. Then maybe they'll fix those issues and break other things. Onyx 25 does seem to crash more often for us but thankfully not in the middle of a print job... yet.
 
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