Press with a drawing apparatus

A method of operating a press having a press frame, at least one slide and a press bed for top and bottom parts of tools, with the press bed having a tool-side sheet metal holder, a transfer device for transporting of sheet metal parts through the press, a drawing device, a liftable and lowerable console through which piston rods of drawing cylinders act on the sheet metal holder to eject the sheet metal parts, the console being operatively connected to a stop that is fixed to the press, and a lifting-lowering drive for the transfer device that lifts and lowers the transfer device, the method comprising:

• adjustably controlling a stop position of the console;
• moving the console upwardly after passing through a lower dead center of the slide and the drawing device;
• temporarily stopping the upward movement of the console as a function of a slide path or an angle of rotation at a height determined by the stop;
• controlling movements of the transfer device via the lifting-lowering drive in coordination with the movement of the console as a function of the slide path or the angle of rotation until the sheet metal parts are gripped by the transfer device in the temporarily stopped upward movement of the console.