Bring in the job
Import from effectively any illustration or CAD application, and from the RIP you already run. Contours can come from the file or be generated from the artwork.
OptiScout software and cutter modernisation
The software runs your cutter, whatever badge is on it.
OptiScout is optical recognition and finishing software for flatbed cutting, milling, lasering and engraving. A camera finds the print on the bed and the software cuts to the contour. It can also provide a current control environment for compatible cutters whose original PC or software is obsolete.
Software and PC upgrades
Current workflow functions
Licences, training and support
How it works
Print, find, cut
The problem OptiScout solves is that printed material never lands on the bed exactly where the file says it should. Paper stretches, board sits skew, a roll feeds a millimetre out. The camera measures what is actually there and the cut follows it.
Register against the print
The camera reads the marks on the printed sheet and the software compensates for position, rotation, stretch and distortion before anything moves.
Nest for the material
True shape nesting places parts to their actual outline rather than their bounding box, which is where the material saving comes from on irregular shapes.
Cut, mill, laser or engrave
Output to the machine with the tool, speed and pressure settings held against the material rather than retyped by the operator each time.
What is in it
A current platform, configured around the work
OptiScout is modular, so the licence matches the work rather than the price list. Two things that used to be extras are now standard in version 9.
Standard in version 9Material database and True Shape Nesting Basic are both included, where previously they were separate.
Material databaseTool, speed, pressure and handling settings held per material, so a job set up once is set up for good.
True Shape Nesting ProThe high end nesting module, for sites where material yield is the number that matters.
QR code moduleThe sheet identifies its own job. Scan and cut, with no operator choosing from a list.
SmartfeedFeed optimisation for material longer than the bed, so oversized work runs in one pass rather than being split.
Macro editor and Quick LayerAutomate the repeated steps, and control which layers go to which tool.
Module names and version as published by Eurosystems Neo S.à r.l., who develop OptiScout. Which modules you need depends on the machine, the material and the volume, which is what a demonstration settles.
Compatibility
It is not tied to one manufacturer
This is the reason most people end up with it. The finishing software is separate from the machine, so a workshop running two makes of table can run one workflow across both, and replacing a machine does not mean relearning the software.
Coming in
Data import from effectively any illustration or CAD program, and from the RIPs already running in most print rooms. If your artwork route is unusual, tell us what it is and we will test it rather than guess.
Going out
Flatbed cutting, routing, milling, lasering and engraving machines from a range of manufacturers, including makes we support and makes we do not. Send us the make, model and control system and we will confirm before you commit to anything.
Older machines
A ten year old cutter with current software is a different machine.
Cutting tables outlast the software that drives them. A table that still cuts accurately can be running a workflow nobody supports, refusing modern file types, or sitting idle because the one operator who understood it has left. Putting current software on it is a fraction of the cost of replacing it.
- 01We look at the machine firstNot every table is worth retrofitting. If the mechanics are past it we will say so rather than sell you a licence for a machine that needs replacing.
- 02Licence, install and commissionSupplied, installed and set up against your materials and your files, not a default configuration.
- 03Operator trainingOn your machine, with your work. The software is only worth what the operators can get out of it.
- 04The same engineers afterwardsWe service cutting tables. So when the question is whether it is the software or the machine, one call covers both.
Supply, installation and support
What that means in practice
A licence key and a download link leave you to work out the rest. Bought here, the software arrives on a machine that has been set up for it, with people who understand both halves of the problem.
OptiScout
UK Distribution Partner
OptiScout refers UK software sales enquiries to Dennison, and OptiScout software is supplied with every refurbished Zünd cutting system sold by Dennison.
New licencesSpecified against the machine and the work, so you are not paying for modules that do nothing for you.
UpgradesOlder OptiScout licences brought up to the current version, including ones bought elsewhere.
RenewalsMaintenance and support renewals handled here rather than chased from abroad.
Installation and commissioningSet up on the machine, against your materials and your file routes.
TrainingOperator training on your equipment, with your own jobs.
Technical supportFrom engineers who service the cutting tables the software drives, in your time zone.
The useful first step is a demonstration with one of your own files on your own material, because that answers the compatibility question properly and a specification sheet does not.
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Send us a file and a material
Tell us the machine you are running and what you need it to cut. We will tell you whether OptiScout drives it, which modules it would actually need, and what it costs.