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12 years ago, one of my biggest customers for RFID tags was 3D Systems. They put them on their consumables exactly for this purpose. I don't follow that industr
by 18pfsmt 9y ago
12 years ago, one of my biggest customers for RFID tags was 3D Systems. They put them on their consumables exactly for this purpose. I don't follow that industry, so I have no idea what goes on at this point. And, for anyone interested they were ISO 15693 tags operating at 13.56MHz made by Texas Instruments.
- jstanley 9y ago> I don't follow that industry, so I have no idea what goes on at this point I do. If what you describe was ever more than an aberration, it is at least no longer the norm. I don't even know of any printers that have the capability of checking an RFID tag, let alone any company that sells filament with RFID tags in it.
- TaylorAlexander 9y agoI’m a hobby 3D printer user with four printers, and none use chipped filament. But then at work they don’t consider machines below $5000, and many of them use proprietary feedstocks. We recently got the new HP Jet Fusion printer [1] which produces wonderful functional parts from nylon and while I don’t operate that machine, I can only assume HP has made it rely heavily on proprietary software and consumables. [1] https://youtu.be/XeTdo-w6Qx8 https://youtu.be/XeTdo-w6Qx8
- dogma1138 9y agoYou don’t buy cartridges from HP (these are user refillable) you do need to buy their agents or authorized agents you can’t just dump any PA12 powder in it and hope for the best. High end printers especially powder deposition ones use pretty complex chemistry and the consumables have to be up to spec.
- dogma1138 9y agoIt’s more for inventory and process control than it’s for DRM. Manufacturing has a lot of idiot proofing and everything has a barcode or an RFID chip in to track what goes where and that the correct thingie went into the correct thing.