Fast, Gentle, and Easy to Set Up: The B.Matic ADR32 Advantage in Sheet Counting
When counting large quantities of sheets, speed is important—but speed alone is not enough. In printing, packaging, security printing, and other demanding applications, the counting process must also protect the material being counted without compromising accuracy.
This is particularly important when handling valuable or highly finished sheets. Bending corners, scratching surfaces, or damaging sheet edges during counting can turn an apparently efficient process into an expensive source of waste.
Speed Without Compromising the Material
B.Matic’s ADR32 counting technology was developed to provide fast, reliable sheet counting while gently handling sheets. Unlike counting methods that can put excessive stress on the corners or edges, the ADR32 technology is designed to count sheets without bending or scratching their corners.
This combination of high counting speed and gentle handling is particularly valuable when counting sensitive printed materials, where every sheet represents a significant investment.
One demanding example is the counting of full-size printed banknote sheets. These sheets require rapid processing, but they must also remain completely undamaged. A counting technology that produces scratches, bent corners, or other physical defects is not acceptable.
Fast Changeovers Without Special Tools
Production environments rarely count only one type of sheet. Different jobs may require different materials and sheet thicknesses, meaning that equipment must be adjusted frequently.
B.Matic sheet counters are designed to make these changes straightforward. The counting system can be quickly adjusted for different sheet thicknesses without tools, helping operators dramatically reduce setup time and return to production faster.
For companies handling multiple substrates or frequent production changes, this can translate into valuable operational savings over time.
Affordable Counting Plates
Another practical advantage is the cost of the counting plates.
Counting plates are an important component of the counting system and, depending on the application and the number of configurations required, their replacement cost can become a significant part of the equipment’s operating expense. B.Matic counting plates are designed to deliver the required counting performance at a significantly lower cost than competing options. This makes maintaining multiple configurations more economical and helps keep the long-term cost of ownership under control.
One State-of-the-art Technology Across the B.Matic Range
The ADR32 technology is not limited to a single premium machine. It is used across B.Matic’s sheet-counting range, from more economical models to the company’s most sophisticated sheet counters.
This means that the advantages of fast, gentle, and reliable counting are available to companies with very different production requirements and investment levels.
Whether the application involves commercial printing, packaging materials, labels, plastic sheets, security documents, or highly valuable banknote sheets, the objective remains the same:
Count quickly. Count accurately. And don’t damage what you are counting.
The Bottom Line
A sheet counter should not be evaluated only by how many sheets it can count per minute. The real question is what happens to the material while it is being counted—and how easily the machine can adapt when the next job arrives.
With B.Matic ADR32 technology, manufacturers get a combination of speed, gentle sheet handling, fast tool-free setup changes, and lower counting-plate costs. That is what makes ADR32 more than just a fast-counting technology: it is a practical solution designed around the real demands of modern sheet-processing operations.