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Offline chbairdTopic starter

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Printing on paper cut tape
« on: March 24, 2021, 04:12:25 pm »
Long time reader, first time poster here.

Watch your Digi-Key boxes for a new feature.  Been working a few years on this (on the side) and it took a bit of time to scale to the volume we produce every day.

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Re: Printing on paper cut tape
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2021, 05:41:52 pm »
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Re: Printing on paper cut tape
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2021, 11:57:04 pm »
Brilliant idea ... but how many devices do you need to get in order to guarantee having the essential details?

Is a strip of 100 enough?  A strip of 20 looks like poor odds.
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Re: Printing on paper cut tape
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2021, 12:08:06 am »
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Re: Printing on paper cut tape
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2021, 02:11:07 am »
From last week's "Desk of Ladyada" livestream (aka Adafruit Industries' Limor Fried):

https://youtu.be/_Q4SqlQpvOo?t=786

About 5m30s segment of the youtube video starting at the linked time.

The info page at DigiKey:

https://www.digikey.com/en/resources/part-tracing


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Offline chbairdTopic starter

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Re: Printing on paper cut tape
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2021, 01:35:01 pm »
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Brilliant idea ... but how many devices do you need to get in order to guarantee having the essential details?

Is a strip of 100 enough?  A strip of 20 looks like poor odds.

Thanks! Unfortunately, the short answer is (as usual), "It depends."  If you add a PO number or customer reference, those get printed on each strip, if space allows.  Certain supplier names are quite long, while others are short.  In general, to get everything, you should probably order at least 600mm of tape.  2mm pitch tape means 300 pieces.  4mm pitch tape means 150 pieces.  As a good rule of thumb, 0402 and smaller parts are 2mm pitch.  0603 and larger is 4mm pitch.

200mm of tape is required for any printing.  Every printed strip includes a "Tracing ID" which allows you to look up all the information about the parts, even if there's not room to print it.

On longer strips, we print all the information up to ten times, spaced equally along the length of tape.
 
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Re: Printing on paper cut tape
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2021, 09:27:36 pm »
Ticker tape with added ceramic. Great idea.  :-+
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