Chris Einerson of Postmark USA wrote in to tell us about how they use waterjet cut parts from Big Blue Saw to save time and money and deliver a finished custom project in less than 2 weeks.
We have developed an industrial turnkey solution for high speed inkjet printers used in the mailing industry. Our inkjet printer can print at speeds up to 100,000 pieces of mail per hour and are usually used for printing the address and barcode for direct mail applications. Other applications outside of mailing for our industrial print heads could be printing barcodes, lot numbers, or serialization.
Postmark has developed a modular mounting system that allows our customers to order custom mounting solutions which can be tailored to any piece of equipment. The mounting system we developed uses a handful of waterjet parts to make an industrial linear slide with height adjustment that runs across a piece of aluminum profile. This slide allows for easy position adjustment of the single pass print head. The 1" thick waterjet brackets bolt down to a conveyor system and allow for the entire bridge mechanism to be hinged up for cleaning the bottom of the cartridges that are installed in the printhead.
The main reason for choosing waterjet on this project was the timeframe and cost. After looking online for quick turnaround vendors I found your website. After doing some cost analysis we determined that waterjet would be very fast and the online quoting tool was very helpful.
We designed the product around using water jet for the majority of the parts and we were able to make small adjustments in the design and get a quote on the fly. This helped us quickly design the system and we were able to have a system ready to ship to our customer within 2 weeks.
