Media Basket

[Gavin MacMillan]

Kind of. We have a dibond box that we made that does pretty much the same job. Although from reading the posts below they are suggesting this acts as a take up roll… I’d take a lot of convincing about that. We don’t have the take up (bought an ezy taper instead, no regrets there!) and I have a dowel going across the dibond box that I stick a core on. Tape the leading edge of the print onto the core and every now and then go and roll up the excess. Works fine for the volume we print and I can roll it up loosely on media that don’t dry quite as quick as others.

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[Jason Xuereb]

Hey Gavin,

I do the same sort of thing with the stand off our old cutter.

The reason I would want this system or something I could push in front of the printer is for when I have jobs that I am continuously sheet cutting.

Example
Today I had to do a lot of sets of ring numbers for those cards girls hold up at boxing matches. I am using the sheet cut feature after each job but I have to catch the print myself. This type of thing would allow me to basically walk away and the prints would fall into this basket.

Anyone know what material it’s made out of? I’d like to build one so its on a stand so I can take it away when it’s not needed.

Cheers
Jason

[Gavin MacMillan]

I don’t do that very often, I normally do a big run and then take away and trim, but I’ve done it a couple of times and lined the box we have with backing paper (keep meaning to do this in a more permanent way) and let stuff drop in. As far as I know these are same kind of material as reusable bags you get from the supermarket, could be wrong though.

G

[Jason Xuereb]

Cheers mate. Ill look into it. I don’t do this very often aswell but today I had to print about 10 hours worth. Would be good to be able to do other jobs without having to worry its going to hit the floor. I was printing 1 metre lengths at a time to save me cutting them later.

I guess if we get the media take up roller id just print the whole lot. Un roll it on my bench and cut it up.

[Peter Normington]

The basket would be fine for just cut vinyl, but i would be wary of using for print. if the sheets fall so the print sides are touching then they will stick together(unless you have a very good on line dryer)
I have made them up using banner material and a few bits of tube and ally angle.

Peter

[Jason Xuereb]

I think your right Peter. Well just get the media take up roller. Do the print run then unroll it on a bench and cut it up.

[George Elsmore]

Is there such a thing on the market for a take up roller on a cadet anyone please?

[Gavin MacMillan]

How do the take up rollers work? I would worry that they roll up the media too tight, and especially on banners make them stick? If they don’t then I want one!!

[Jason Xuereb]

No idea Gavin, I’d like to know also. Are they automatic meaning once the sheet hits the roller will it start winding itself or do you have to tape it to the roller then it takes over?

[Fred McLean]

Infra red eye
Tape to a roll to start then once enough drops down to the eye it
starts winding a small amount to clear then another drops down etc etc
and it doesn’t wind too tightly 😀

[Peter Normington]

mimaki have an adjustable clutch similar to on a laminator.
so it keeps a nice tension on the media, it also helps keeping the media flat across the platten

Peter

[Bill McMurtry]

As Peter said, the Mimaki take-up roller is equipped with an easily adjustable clutch which controls the print roll up tension. It works very well, just tape the media along the take-up roller tube, set the clutch tension and walk away. One of the first jobs I did on the JV3 last week was a 4 metre banner and the take-up worked very well, which was just as well because I only had the extraction ducting half installed. If I had to stay in the room and breath the fumes it would have been one awesome trip man (<(