ONYX Align alternative
The modern ONYX Align alternative for print & sign shops
ONYX Align comes from the company behind the ONYX RIP, and it gets one big thing right: cost-plus-margin pricing that tells you whether a job makes money. If you're deep in the ONYX ecosystem it's a natural look. Beyond pricing, though, the workflow layer is thinner — production tracking, approvals, automations and the day-to-day floor experience are where shops feel the gaps. PrinterFlo matches the margin-first pricing philosophy and wraps it in the full shop workflow.
Bring your customers and products with you — export to CSV, drop it into Settings → Import, and PrinterFlo matches the columns for you.
PrinterFlo vs ONYX Align
| ONYX Align | PrinterFlo | |
|---|---|---|
| Margin-first pricing | Yes — cost plus margin | Yes — cost, profit and margin % live on every quote |
| Materials setup | Cost configuration | Spreadsheet-style options library your staff can edit inline |
| Production | Basic tracking | Drag-and-drop board, custom stages, slide-over previews |
| Approvals & payment | Limited | No-login link: proofs, approval, deposit |
| Automations | — | Stage changes email customers automatically |
Switching from ONYX Align
The part everyone worries about, in three steps.
- 01
Export from ONYX Align
Every system this size will hand you a CSV of your customer list and your product or pricing list. That export is yours — you don't need anyone's permission to take it.
- 02
Import it here
Settings → Import, drop the CSV in, map the columns once. Your customers and your products land with their prices, so the pricing setup you spent hours building doesn't get rebuilt by hand.
- 03
Start new work here, finish old work there
Open orders, invoices and job history do NOT come across — no CSV carries them faithfully, and pretending otherwise is how migrations go wrong. Run the last few weeks of old jobs to completion where they live, and quote everything new in PrinterFlo.
Or don't do it yourself — send us the export.
We'll map and load your customers and products for you, check the prices came across right, and hand it back ready to quote from. No charge, and you don't have to be a customer first.
Where ONYX Align fits
Wide-format shops already invested in ONYX RIP workflows that primarily want cost-based estimating.
Why shops switch to PrinterFlo
- → Workflow, approvals and floor tools are thinner than the pricing engine.
- → No automations attached to customizable stages.
- → Tied to the ONYX ecosystem's way of working.
ONYX Align alternative — FAQ
Does PrinterFlo show margin like ONYX Align?
Yes — your material and production costs live alongside prices, so every quote line shows cost, profit and margin % while you build it, not in a report afterwards.
Do I need to use a specific RIP with PrinterFlo?
No. PrinterFlo is RIP-agnostic shop management — it runs your quoting, production and approvals regardless of what drives your printers.
Run your shop on PrinterFlo
A clean production board, fast quoting with a built-in sign calculator, and one-click customer approvals — built for how sign & print shops actually work.
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