Zünd Cut Center software dynamically guides the operator through the cutting process by continually offering best choices based on the material to be cut, available tooling, and quality requirements. Because the software basically eliminates the need for operator experience or trial and error, it minimizes set-up times, helps avoid mistakes, and ensures the cutter is running at maximum productivity levels at all times.

With a highly visual and intuitive user interface, Zund Cut Center encompasses all phases of an efficient graphics production workflow - including designing, planning, printing, and cutting. With Zund Cut Center, customers’ needs can be met faster, with higher and consistent quality and far less effort.

Cutting a job with Zund Cut Center is as easy as reading a barcode or selecting a job from the integral Cut Queue. Either approach puts an end to the time consuming task of locating a cut file for a new job or for reproducing an existing one. In addition, a new workflow utilizes job-specific details (such as material specifications, order ID, due date, and job priority) to determine when and how a job is cut.

Key features

• Cut Queue for quick file retrieval and access to the production schedule for job prioritization.

• Using the industry’s most sophisticated algorithm, “Best-Fit” compensation corrects for even the most non-uniform distortions, such as those seen in printed textiles.

• Cut Editor offers advanced editing functions, including router hatch/island fill used to create pockets in rigid substrates, overcut compensation to eliminate unsightly cuts on inside corners, etc.

“Zund Cut Center is far superior to anything in the marketplace,” says Lars Bendixen, the Sign and Graphics Product Manager for Zünd Systemtechnik AG. “In cooperation with leading RIP, ERP, and MIS software manufacturers, we expect to take automated workflow, production planning and reporting to the next level. The possibilities are unlimited.”

“Zund Cut Center is a direct result of our close cooperation with Grafitroniks, the developer and supplier of the widely used GTK Cut Pro and Touch & Cut Vision registration software. Their expertise combined with our knowledge of cutting hardware and workflow requirements were essential to the development of this new product,” says Oliver Zünd, Managing Director for Sign & Graphics at Zünd Systemtechnik AG.

S3 – ground-breaking and super fast

With a revolutionary direct-drive system, the S3 is built for speed. The new cutter excels with unprecedented price/performance as well as exceptional productivity. S3 is capable of processing a wide range of materials, including textiles, vinyls, films, thinner plastics, and cardboard, with the modularity and quality typical of Zünd. The S3 features smaller, space-saving footprints and ultra-fast Z- and T-axis control. Altogether, the characteristics of the S3 make it the perfect all-round cutting system whose capabilities can be extended even further with creasing tools and a 300W router insert. Zund Cut Center, Zünd’s multiple award-winning design-to-cut software suite, completes the new S3 cutter line.

“Short-run” and “just-in time” production is today’s standard for producers of packaging and display graphics. The new Zünd board-handling system offers even more efficient and fully automated digital cutting.

The fundamental advantages of digital cutting are well known by now. The elimination of traditional dies saves cost in production as well as space, since digital dies require no physical storage. The digital cutting process also makes it possible to create far more complex contours and permits even last-minute changes. In addition, tighter registration capabilities allow for printing larger sheets, and setup for digital cutting requires very little time.

High process reliability and automation

The new Zünd board handling system, designed for fully automated production of signage, displays, packaging, etc., further accentuates the advantages of digital cutting. This option, typical of the Zünd cutter concept, is highly modular and can be implemented gradually. With full automation of both the loading and unloading process, virtually no setup or operator intervention is required. And the Zünd Cut Center software, as always, ensures user-friendly system operation. All of this combines to significantly enhance productivity while limiting personnel requirements to loading and unloading pallets of stacked boards and finished product.

In developing this automated material-handling system, care was taken to not lose sight of the need for processing single boards. The accessibility and easy set-up of the system allows single orders and samples to be produced just as efficiently as the ever shorter and medium runs. Whether for shorter or longer production runs, the innovative Zünd board-handling system is the ticket to greater efficiency and new opportunities.