Thought I had enough material- and was very close- does anyone know if you are at the end of a roll of media, how to "trick" it into thinking the "slack" is still there? I tried holding some material in front of the sensor, but got a lift lever/set paper error. Basically, is there a way to switch from roll printing to sheet printing during a print?
the way i've seen is to pull the media off the core so that the me lever does not flick forward. you then have until the media disappears under the pinch roller cover, otherwise the media out sensor picks it up. you could cover that, but it would only giove you another 10cms of print.
I'm not sure I follow you. When it gets to the end of a roll, I take it offline and cut the media at the roll- but keeping the slack present or tricking the printer into thinking it still has slack there is the problem.
exactly, but if you can see the end of the roll occuring there's no need to take it offline. just unwind the roll by hand, slice the media at the core and leave it slack.
i think we always print with something stuck over the sensor to cheat it... and yes, unwinding the media manually at the end is the only solution.
some media are wound so tightly and a bit simmered at the edges (like a banner cut narrow from a wider roll) that when the machine pulls it once too hard, it's gonna think it's the end of media.
that's why the slack unwinding mode that i think is present in the 100s is a welcome solution.
Have you had to do this yet? I understand what you are saying, but it did not work for me. It seemed that tricking the sensor was the problem. How exactly is the best way to do that?
