[agrafa]

Hi everyone! I'm not quite a newbie here, yet I don't post much. Just read

I have looked throughout the forum, but I can't find anything similar that could help us out, so here it is...

Our company is getting more and more plastisol heat tranfers orders (here in Europe), we print them on a manual and semi-automatic flatbeds, we then send the sheets through powder applicator and in the end to the conveyor dryer. We need 2 workers to this this - one printing and the other one is taking the finished transfers out of the machine. Has anyone of you consider of making DIY output tray for transfers that fell/come out of the conveyor? I think and think, but can't find a solution for it.

Now I have a simple box at the end, but prints don't stack nicely - they just don't fell of nice. Did anyone of you heat transfer printers came up with someting? It just doesn't seem right that we have to have one person at the end of the belt just to take the transfers our and pile them.

Any salvation? Would really appreciate ANY idea!

 

[NoXid]

Hmmm, not something I've dealt with, but years ago at a place I used to work, me and another guy setup or own in-house automated assembly line that collated, bagged, labeled, and QAed sets of CDs. I mainly wrote the code that compared the barcode scans of the components to the work order, and that read the position sensors ...

Anyway, it can be tough to reliably handle light-weight items with an automated system ... just not enough mass for gravity to ensure that things go where you want them to go.

I would suggest an output bin open on two sides, closed on two, and tilted backwards away from the conveyor at about 30 degrees, and tilted to one side by about 30 degrees. The transfers might then settle more or less properly against the downhill corner of the bin. If one could arrange for the bin to jiggle/shake/vibrate then it would most likely work very well.