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We are often asked by our customers to let them know if we can sense or edge guide a certain material. This is how this usually goes:

We have a difficult to sense material. It is very porous, non-homogeneous, extremely translucent... Do you think your web edge sensor can see the material and guide the material?

And our answer typically is, yes we can.

Slitting a roll of printed labels or even monitoring the label printing process, you just might need a line or contrast sensing application for guiding.

In the last few blog posts we saw how Roll-2-Roll^® Sensor compares to common sensors, to vision systems and specifically to line scan camera based vision systems. We saw that the Roll-2-Roll^® Sensor system is an intelligent embedded sensor with vision capabilities.

In a previous blog post we saw how Roll-2-Roll^® Sensor is not just a simple sensor but more like a vision based system that is simpler to use. Specifically we saw that they are more like a 1D line scan camera.

In our previous blog post we looked at how Roll-2-Roll^® Sensor is more than just a sensor and is similar to a camera based vision system. In this post we will look at how it actually compares to a traditional camera based vision system.

It is more than a sensor, in fact it is a line scan camera. Roll-2-Roll^® Sensors are more than just a typical sensor, they are one-dimensional line scan camera with integrated lighting and optics.