Printed Fabric Contour Cutting With Vision CCD

A typical buyer for this application is a garment or textile workshop producing printed fabrics, embroidery, or automotive mats. The material arrives as rolls with a repeating pattern, and the cut line must follow the printed contour exactly to avoid trimming away part of the design.

• Manual tracing of printed contours is too slow for batch production
• Fabric shifting during feeding causes cuts to miss the printed edge
• Die tooling is too expensive for short runs of new designs
• Heat-affected zones on synthetic fabrics require extra finishing time

• The printed fabric roll is loaded onto the stainless steel meshed worktable
• The Canon camera scans the printed contour and sends data to the Trocen control system
• The automatic feeding correction function adjusts the material position to match the scan
• The CO2 laser cuts the contour at speeds up to 30000 mm/min
• The belt transmission and step motor drive the cutting head along the Taiwan CSK linear guide rail
• The water cooling system maintains the laser tube temperature during continuous operation

The Taiwan CSK linear guide rails and belt transmission are checked for smooth movement before the machine leaves the workshop. The Canon camera and Trocen control system are tested together to ensure the automatic feeding correction function aligns the cut with the printed contour accurately.

Short runs of new printed fabrics become profitable, because the cost of a design change is zero tooling and zero setup time. The labour previously spent on manual tracing or die fitting is removed from the production line, and the cut edges require no finishing.