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How does my FX recognize how much foil is left on a spool?

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_Neil

New Member
A friend recently gave me a bunch of partly-used Edge II foil cartridges and I experimented with unreeling one and re-reeling it onto an FX cartridge spool. It worked great, except that I did not recognize how much feet was left.

On another note, I've put in spools that have 3+ yds left, but the FX recongnized it as only a couple feet.

So what mechanism does it use to recognize the length of material left?

Thanks.
 
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Drip Dry

New Member
Don't know how to determine the length, but there is a caddy you can buy for the FX and put the old cartridges in.
Beats unrolling and re-rolling
 
jfiscus

jfiscus

Rap Master
There is a little (RFID?) chip/counter that is behind the label on the EdgeFX cartridges. it isn't 100% accurate. The standard Edge foils have the length remaining printed along one edge of the material.
 
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_Neil

New Member
jfiscus said:
There is a little (RFID?) chip/counter that is behind the label on the EdgeFX cartridges. it isn't 100% accurate. The standard Edge foils have the length remaining printed along one edge of the material.
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Yes, RFID in the thin "bar" on the pickup-spool end, but that's just to recognize the color. A gerber tech rep told me about this so swapping it allowed me to run Fireball red even though my Omega 2.6 doesn't know of that color.

I was expecting the printer to recognize that dot-matrix-printed remaining length on the edge of the foil, but being quite incorrect, I suspect it may be based on diameter of the spool left or something else. I'll probably go to signs expo here in Orlando in a couple weeks, so I'll have to pick someone's brain on this.
 
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