Onyx and UCJV330 Config

[Goatshaver]

Does anyone have any experience setting up and 8 Color printer in Onyx? Specifically the White and Clear (varnish as onyx uses). I've got the printer installed but I'm really not sure how to setup the white or clear spots on this so I can test them.
Now that I've got an i1 I want to experiment with making some media profiles so I can start to use the UCJV with Onyx a little bit.

 

[balstestrat]

Spot1 and Spot2 most likely.
You can change them as well in the colour management if you wish.

You can print the onyxqualityevaluation.pdf and it will include those so you can see the print as well.

 

[Goatshaver]

Well I still don't know how to get them to print at all. at least I can spend the holiday trying to figure this sh*t out cause I'm frustrated.
There is absolutely trash documentation on any of this....especially from Onyx. I highly doubt a 15 year old video on making profiles in Onyx is going to be relevant to the current versions.

 

[Solventinkjet]

Yeah, Mimaki only publishes how to do it in Rasterlink and it doesn't use spot colors for some reason. Luckily, they do have the industry standard spot colors built into the printer driver though. So using Spot1 for white and Spot2 for varnish should work. You just need to create those spot colors in your design software and apply them to your file. The RIP should pick them up automatically and print properly. Just note that the spot color names are case and space sensitive.

 

[White Haus]

I went through this a while ago when we profiled our UCJV300-160 w/ CMYKLcLmWW. Not exactly what you're asking but same challenge. It took a tech a full day just to create one profile to print cmyk+spot1.
Onyx had really sketchy drivers at the time, hopefully they've improved for this new model.

I can try to share screenshots of our profile, see if that helps? (It's not perfect and most of the time you don't actually know what it's going to print until it's printing....but might be a start?)

 

[Smoke_Jaguar]

Running a Mimaki UV printer with clear and white in anything but RasterLink is a stellar way to test one's sanity. Things only get worse when wanting to use delayed cure for clear glossy finish.

 

[jharler]

For white ink, you'll use a spot color named "Spot1". For clear, you'll use "Spot3". In Illustrator, you need to make sure that Spot1/Spot3 has the attribute set to overprint fill.

I tried changing the spot color names and it stopped working, so I stuck with Spot1 and Spot3. I use Onyx Thrive 24.

 

[Goatshaver]

I went through this a while ago when we profiled our UCJV300-160 w/ CMYKLcLmWW. Not exactly what you're asking but same challenge. It took a tech a full day just to create one profile to print cmyk+spot1.
Onyx had really sketchy drivers at the time, hopefully they've improved for this new model.

I can try to share screenshots of our profile, see if that helps? (It's not perfect and most of the time you don't actually know what it's going to print until it's printing....but might be a start?)

That would be helpful since I've never setup spots in Onyx. My Epson is 4 color only so I never got into custom spot colors.
It's already a pain just making profiles.....and scanning a million patches it feels like.

Running a Mimaki UV printer with clear and white in anything but RasterLink is a stellar way to test one's sanity. Things only get worse when wanting to use delayed cure for clear glossy finish.

I can already see it's not going to be easy but mostly I'm doing for prints I run to rolls and cut on my Graphtech cutter so I don't have to build layouts in illustrator. Some of my layouts I build in illustrator are 2gb and just a bear to deal with. I highly doubt I'll drop RL7 at all since I'm so used to using it now.