Onyx 10 - printing a barcode ??

[bob_5793]

Hi,
I have Onyx Production House 10 with an Encad 850, both had plenty of use - but today it printed a barcode top and bottom of the print - never had the software or printer do that before, and cant find a setting in the Onyx software that would make it do that - checked the PDF that was run - no barcode there (it was a PDF opened and resaved in Illi).

I am aware some Printers will print a barcode on media - which is read by the printer to keep track of media usage - but know the Encad doesn't have that feature.

Any Ideas what setting and where - would have caused this.

 

[P Wagner]

If you define a Graphtec cutter in the Preflight / Job Editor for the job, it will print registration marks and a bar code. Other brands of cutters may well do the same.

 

[SignMeUpGraphics]

You've selected a Contour Cutter in Job Editor. Look in the lower left of the first page/tab.

 

[bob_5793]

Ahh yes, found I'd selected a default Contour Cutter somehow ... guess the barcode simply tells the printer to then go get data from the cut server once its printed.

 

[SignMeUpGraphics]

The barcoding actually works quite well.
We'll often print out 20 separate jobs onto a single roll on our UV printer, then put them through out Roland cutter.
We have a barcode scanner hooked up to our Cut Server machine and just scan each job, it automatically picks the job from the list and proceeds to cut.
A lot easier than manually finding the right job each time.

 

[bob_5793]

We dont have a cutter, so was surprised when it run out the job with a barcode, we should really go out and buy a cutter as we put out jobs now and again, and think its always better to have this stuff inhouse.