Description
The art of cutting does not have to be complicated. With today's technology, you can achieve unparalleled accuracy through automated cutting systems. In this article, we provide an insight into the features and benefits of using flatbed cutting plotters in your production environment.
When size matters
Jobs of all sizes - small and large - all need to be finished accurately. However, both complicated small jobs and life-size jobs take a lot of time, effort and skill to finish manually. This is exactly where a cutting table can come in "handy" to save you not only valuable time, but also money.
With today's technology, you can achieve excellent accuracy through automated cutting systems. Especially when you want to cut a wide variety of substrates and applications, a flatbed cutting plotter is the best choice to make. But the choice within Summa's range of flatbed cutting plotters is vast, so how can you decide which size best suits your type of business?
Before deciding which size to choose, ask yourself the following questions:
- What is your core business; do you focus on specific or as many applications as possible?
- How flexible do you want to be in offering new applications/solutions?
- What material sizes do you process most often?
- How much do you want to invest?
- How much space do you have for a flatbed cutting plotter?
- Anything else you are thinking about?
If you need personalized advice to decide which size is best for your business, don't hesitate to contact our experienced sales team. Prepare your business for a wide variety of jobs
If you want to take your business to the next level, you need to be ready to handle any job. Whether it's cutting 1,000 same-size magnetic stickers or hard sheet metal to promote an upcoming sale from your customer with a POS display stand, you need a system that can handle any job, no matter how complicated.
Every Summa flatbed cutting plotter includes a modular tooling system as standard, making it possible to customize the cutter to meet anyone's needs. The modules on Summa's F Series flatbed cutting plotters can hold up to three tools simultaneously, meaning that up to three (different) techniques can be performed in the same job.
In this way, an endless range of substrates can be processed in no time. The list below is just a snippet of what a Summa flatbed cutting plotter can finish for you:
- Corrugated board
- Foam boards
- MDF boards
- PVC
- Acrylic
- Magnetic materials
- Dibond
- Rolling material
- Textiles (Mesh fabrics, flags, banners,...)
Optimize your workflow with the following systems for easy material handling
Choosing a flatbed cutting plotter means optimizing your workflow and saving time. Did you know that your future flatbed cutting plotter includes many features to increase your productivity? Spending a week on a single job is a thing of the past with these amazing features!
Get your production up and running with the following standard features:
- Vacuum system to keep material in place. Thanks to this air-assisted system, the material is held flat and firm during processing on the table to prevent distortion of the material.
- Conveyor belt system for controlled feeding of the material. A conveyor belt fixed around the table in combination with pneumatically driven media clamps makes it possible to cut long jobs consisting of flexible material to large production processes.
- Roll Support for roll-to-roll jobs. Combined with the Transport System, the Roll Support is ideal for handling roll material on flatbed cutters of any size. The Roll Support is placed at the rear and always keeps the rolls firmly in place.
However, the ambitious Summa team likes to go a step further with the following unique features, which are included in all standard Summa F Series flatbed cutting solutions:
- Tandem Mode to increase productivity. This mode allows the active work area to be divided into front and rear zones, allowing the user to load and unload material on one side of the table while cutting material on the other. The active loading zone alternates between the front and rear zones, avoiding idle periods. (Available on the F1330, F1832, F2630 and F3232).
- Operator Zone This feature divides the work area into two separate zones, a cutting zone and an operator zone. All material is automatically conveyed to the operator zone. Because the cutting head does not move beyond the cutting zone, the operator has access to the processed material at the front of the machine.
- Poster Trim This feature allows posters to be cut without cutting data information. The built-in camera system on all F Series sizes automatically detects the edges of black printed frames and begins cutting immediately.
