Need help automating a small printer

[Chicago Ted]

I've got a small printer printing empty canisters onto a medium storage on a platform, which gets emptied into a shredder. I've slapped a storage sensor stuck to the side of the storage, set to full/not full, with the target pin stuck in the printer, which has the continuous print button turned on.

What I expect to happen is that when the storage fills up, it sends a signal to the printer which turns it off, and when a canister is pulled off it sends a signal to turn the printer on again. Instead, no signal ever gets sent, and the printer just keeps going as long as it's fed resin, resulting in a big pile of canisters rolling around the place.

What am I doing wrong?

[TupperGamer90]

Maybe you should control when the resin should feed the printer, when its full, disable the arm that feeds resin to the printer.

[Geauxboy]

A picture might help because it sounds right but I also wonder if you need to put down a pin prior to pinning the printer cause tht's how mine is setup. It's been a little while since I played but I do that setup for scrap and exo chips and it works just fine.

In the case of my exo chips setup, I have it set to start/stop the trade platform and autoarms when the tall storage container is full. It also sends off the trade platform too. So if I take an exo chip off the storage, it all starts up and sends the trade and puts the new chip on the storage. Now that it's full again, everything stops.

[kefir111]

other option is cut power to the printer. via power switch

[crashdodgers]

The best advice I can give you is to go on to YouTube and look up a channel by One last midnight, he has a lot of good tutorial video's on all things Astroneer.

[jkazmerski1]

maybe use a medium storage silo

[charleszjreid]

empty canisters on storage still register as empty