That's what I assumed.
I also assumed that it would be impractical to fit a paper end sensor
1killometer from the printer as with offset you need to run anything up
to 200 copies just to adjust the density / color

If you have the roll weight and the grams/sq meter you could work out
the length
The press surely has a drum counter, if not fit one.
Now work out how much you've used/have left

Use a pic, enter the roll length, then using a input from the drum
counter display the remaining paper length

Peter Cousens
cousens@biscit.biz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pic microcontroller discussion list
[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Tal
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 7:06 PM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [PIC]: Length measurement
>
> Hi Peter and other,
>
> When I say printer + reel I thought you going to guess that I am
talking
> about giant printer not a DeskJet :-)
> we are talking about 100" (2.6m) that fed with vynil,paper. etc..
> there is no mechanism to find how much material left so I must build
it.

--
http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics
(like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics