Hello friends!
I just got back from drinking some fantastic microbrews and the Broncos game in Colorado last weekend. While there, I stopped by one of my suppliers to meet them in person and they showed me around their shop. In the laser room I was shocked to find they had 3 older universal lasers powered by one networked pc. They print the job and when they print they tell it which laser it should go to. The laser then receives the job and prints once they hit the go key. On thier larger and newer 4th laser it even had a menu you could scroll and pick jobs from.
It was a huge space saver compared to my one pc per one Trotec layout I have now. Why I started doing this, was when I'm running a job on my Trotec it noticeably slows down the pc, not to a crawl, but definitely enough that it hinders productivity. Also each of my Trotecs is typically doing a different job.
Interested to hear your thoughts... I'm wondering if this is just a limitation of the Trotec job control, and the Trotecs being reliant on a pc to run, or if there is a better way to do jobs on multiple Trotec lasers?