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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: leftover cartridge is like after thanksgiving]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>luluwhine wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>What do you do guys with leftover cartridge you are using XYZ? </p><p>XYZ doesn&#039;t left me print when there&#039;s isn&#039;t enough ABS. So let say a job requires 50.36M and I only have 40.15M it will deny me and forcing me to use a new cartridge because I don&#039;t have enough ABS to complete the job. </p><p>I now have two leftover cartridges each have about 15M left of ABS. Is there a way to hack the machine to use up the remaining of the ABS, and how may I swap cartridge in between a job without quitting a job?</p></blockquote></div><p>Ok, couple things here....</p><p>First you have two options when faced with the &#039;end of spool dilemma&#039;&nbsp; You can either get a cart resetter or the wctek cart emulator.&nbsp; I have the emulator, it goes in the printer in the cart bay and is able to always tell your printer that you have a max cart with 240m of filament ready to go; that way you can use whatever filament you want and use up those carts to the last inch.&nbsp; I do not like the resetter as it can cause the chip to fail if programmed wrong.</p><p>Now I have successfully swapped carts during a print.&nbsp; On the control panel during a print yu have the option to pause the print.&nbsp; I was almost out of filament but had another spool ready to go.&nbsp; So I paused, Manually unloaded the filament, and loaded the new one.&nbsp; Since I could not use the load procedure during a pause, I had to hold the tab open while I gently pushed the filament in until it just started to come out the tip.&nbsp; I then un-paused and away it went, worked perfectly....</p>]]></content>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: leftover cartridge is like after thanksgiving]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>luluwhine wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>What do you do guys with leftover cartridge you are using XYZ? </p><p>XYZ doesn&#039;t left me print when there&#039;s isn&#039;t enough ABS. So let say a job requires 50.36M and I only have 40.15M it will deny me and forcing me to use a new cartridge because I don&#039;t have enough ABS to complete the job. </p><p>I now have two leftover cartridges each have about 15M left of ABS. Is there a way to hack the machine to use up the remaining of the ABS, and how may I swap cartridge in between a job without quitting a job?</p></blockquote></div><br /><p>They sell refill kits that come with a new spool and a chip. Just open the cartridge and swap out the spool and chip.</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2015-11-29T21:16:48Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>What do you do guys with leftover cartridge you are using XYZ? </p><p>XYZ doesn&#039;t left me print when there&#039;s isn&#039;t enough ABS. So let say a job requires 50.36M and I only have 40.15M it will deny me and forcing me to use a new cartridge because I don&#039;t have enough ABS to complete the job. </p><p>I now have two leftover cartridges each have about 15M left of ABS. Is there a way to hack the machine to use up the remaining of the ABS, and how may I swap cartridge in between a job without quitting a job?</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2015-11-29T21:12:10Z</updated>
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