Newspapers today have more pages, sections and process color. They often print other products, and many rolls of multiple press lines. So with pagination and platesetting, getting the right plate to the right place shouldn't require someone sorting and stacking plates and scribbling page identification and press destination on the back of each - information that can instead be stored in a bar code.
Simple Bar Code Reader System
This simple system can be added to any current or future Glunz & Jensen Punch Bender. It can be programmed straight off the bender's standard Programmed Logic Controller (PLC) System through the ProVision Command PC control system.
Glunz & Jensen's Bar Code Reader Systems allow for tracking, sorting and collating plates through the finishing line to the stacker. The Bar Code Reader System reports the status of the plate before it enters the bender, while in the bender, or after it leaves the bender by sending ASCII Text to any reporting or Plate Tracking System.
The bar code reader can be incorporated into Glunz & Jensen conveyor units, Universal Transition Modules (UTM) or the bender itself. The reader station can be located before the bender, inside the bender or after the bender and before the stacker.
The Bar Code Reader System can enhance your current punch bender with other features that will automate the plate production process. This system is available as a standard feature in the ProVision Alliance V-series Punch Bender (other features of the ProVision PC control system may not be available in other benders).
A Bar Code Data Collection System is standard with the ProVision Alliance series Punch Benders. The bar code device connects into the ProVision Alliance and user selectable bar code data to the logging and control function of ProVision Alliance. The operator can select which bar code character to begin capturing, and the number of subsequent characters to capture. Other benders can be upgraded to collect and report data to other workflow systems.
The bar code data is automatically logged to the Microsoft Access™ database file. The ProVision Alliance System can use the bar code to adjust image to bend characteristics, possibly as a means of color registration adjustment.
Alternatively, ProVision Alliance can use the bar code information to control which stacking bin the plate is delivered into. Stacking control requires the proper type of stacker machinery.
Glunz & Jensen's software engineers can program the Bar Code System to:
- Read any 32 characters - custom configured
- Report any customer configured information to any plate tracking system
- Read plates before or after bend functions are performed
- Report plate status
- Select and sort plates to proper stacking bin location
- Report plate bar code errors
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