How do I create an image of our standard MacBook build?

Hi,
I've been set the job of creating a standard image for all our companies MacBooks. We currently have a build process, but this takes several hours for each MacBook and isn't very convienient.
What I would like to do is install all the required software, configure all the settings, then take an image that we can deploy to all subsequent MacBooks.
I know this is a pretty simple procedure for a Windows machine, but from my research, unless I'm missing something blindingly obvious, it doesn't seem to quite as simple on Macs.
All our MacBooks currently run on Mountain Lion 10.8.5, we are unable to upgrade to Mavericks at the moment due to some support issues with disk encryption software.
I am currently using a MacMini with Server installed 10.8.5.
Can someone please offer me some advice?
Cheers
Dunk

If you perceive the Windows procedure to be easy, then the Mac process will be a slice of cake and a bowl or cherries. Cloning OS X is incredibly easy. There are some gotchas when new hardware is released, but in general, it is cake. There are many ways to do this.
The easiest, is a disk image clone. You have already figure out the steps. Build a machine exactly the way you want it. But don't personalize it in any way. Don't bind it to the domain. Don't create user accounts (other than admin), and remember to change the machine name to something the you will remember to change. I tend to use CHANGEME. Once you have the master image, the steps are basically:
1: Boot the master machine to its recovery partition or into target disk mode.
2: Use Disk Utility to create a disk image of the entire drive. Compressed with no encryption is usually effective.
3: Save this to a drive other than the master drive.
4: When the capture is complete, go to the images menu in Disk Utility and run Scan Image for Restore on the disk image you've just created.
5: When done, use that disk image and the Restore tab of Disk Utility to restore back to other machines. Once again, boot to the other machines recovery partition or build yourself a boot service drive.
Now, beyond this, you can get into NetRestore (requires and OS X Server), or tools like JAMF. You need more than 50 Macs for this to be cost effective.
Imaging Macs is cake. New SSD based units can be cloned in less than 10 minutes.
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