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Can a D160 read Onyx barcodes?
I’ve only had this machine for 2 days and I am wondering if there’s any way to get it to read the barcode that onyx puts on the print and cut jobs so I just load it and it starts cutting the correct job?
Thanks
John
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4 Replies
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hi i use the cut server, open and scan, set the eye over the square on the plotter and away the plotter goes, if it doesnt scan you look at the left hand side for the number on the barcode click and it will reveal the cut file, i hope that made sense 😀
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Hi
John – sorry to jump in on your post but have a related question (I dont know the answer to yours).
Nicola (or anyone else reading this post) – we have a Summa S160t and Onyx. We print the barcode and load the media with OPOS XY so the cutter gets the origin point ready for contour cutting. We then find the alphanumeric code in the job list in Cut Server and hit cut. Everything works fine (although not with perfect accuracy – will have to play with calibration).
However, we cant get cut server to automatically scan and read in the bar code, we hit the ‘scan barcode’ button (or whatever the wording is) but the plotter does nothing, hence manually finding it in the list. It sounds like you are successfully completing this auto scan action? – is there something we are missing? (as an aside do you connect via serial of USB I’ve often thought that might be the cause but haven’t tried it, we are USB).
Final question! In Onyx have you ever managed to get the same job printed in multiples down the vinyl, without it giving a new bar code to every instance of the repeat print. i.e. the Summa when finishing cutting one contour winds forward to read the next bar code it finds – if it did find the same barcode again it would automatically register itself and cut the next repeat – in theory for a full roll. However, I’ve tried everything I can think of and Onyx still gives a new barcode to every print, hence it just stops. Any ideas?
Thanks again, sorry again for jumping into your post.
Cheers
Macky -
Hi
Yes you can do this as long as you have Onyx 10.1,10.2 or 10.2.5 and a Summa D series or S class cutter.
During the life of Onyx 10.1 they changed the Summa driver to give you this bigger barcode. To get it you needed to patch v10.1 with the online patch. It came as standard with all following versions.
Once you have the "postnet" barcode you need to set Cutserver to "cut to folder" as you need to send the jobs to a folder that can be seen by Summa Cutter Controls’ Barcode Server.
This is the key point – the barcode will only work when Onyx is used in conjunction with the Summa Cutter Control software – it won’t do it on its own.
The Summa software takes the .plt files from cutserver and queues them up and tells the cutter to start. It will scan for a barcode – read it and select the correct file from the queue to cut.
After cutting, it will automatically advance the roll by up to 50cm looking for the next barcode and keeps cutting automatically for the whole roll or until the queue is empty.
The attached file does a much better job of explaining it than I can!
David it shouldn’t matter if your barcode number is different – it will find the correct match whether you are printing copies or different jobs.
Even if you had the same barcode number Onyx still would not cut multiple jobs automatically – you need to use it in conjunction with Summa Cutter Control software to get Onyx to cut more than one job without user intervention.
You can always nest multiple print copies in Onyx as a long, single job with a single set of cut marks but this should be kept to 2-3m max to maintain accuracy.
Hope this helps.
Andrew -
Hi Andrew
Thank you very much for the info. Thanks to you I have now got this working and it’s brilliant!
Kind regards
John
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