My shop recently switched to a Kodak Achieve and Sonora plates and are looking at storage options for keeping plates organized before they're imaged. We have four sizes: Jet, Hamada, Komori Sprint, and Komori Spica. I was leaning towards a Sandusky Flat File Cabinet with open base, like this:
Sandusky
but Sandusky says the drawers only have a tolerance of 33 lbs., and our Spica plates are 39 lbs. for a package of 50. I've seen the same products from Safco and Edsal, and they say their drawers can take 60 or 80 lbs., respectively. Is Sandusky low-quality, or was the person I chatted with misinformed? There are significant price differences between Sandusky and the other brands, so we would have to be certain that one or the other would be worth the cost.
And, is the flat file cabinet even a suitable way to store the plates? One of my managers wants to get something like this:
Welded Storage Cabinets in Stock - ULINE
But I was planning on keeping the desktop and monitor for the Achieve on top of the flat file cabinet, which I couldn't do a with welded cabinet.
If anyone can post photos of how their plates are organized, it would be helpful to know what works. Thank you.
Sandusky
but Sandusky says the drawers only have a tolerance of 33 lbs., and our Spica plates are 39 lbs. for a package of 50. I've seen the same products from Safco and Edsal, and they say their drawers can take 60 or 80 lbs., respectively. Is Sandusky low-quality, or was the person I chatted with misinformed? There are significant price differences between Sandusky and the other brands, so we would have to be certain that one or the other would be worth the cost.
And, is the flat file cabinet even a suitable way to store the plates? One of my managers wants to get something like this:
Welded Storage Cabinets in Stock - ULINE
But I was planning on keeping the desktop and monitor for the Achieve on top of the flat file cabinet, which I couldn't do a with welded cabinet.
If anyone can post photos of how their plates are organized, it would be helpful to know what works. Thank you.