DLTa: Cartridge Tape Cleaner/Inspector

Features:

• Cleans, retensions and optically scans all DLT-type cartridges in one pass.
  
• 200 ips operation
  
• Automatically advancing tissue cleans both sides of the tape.
  
• Easy access to cleaning stations.
  
• Most advanced Optical Inspector system available.
  
• Minimizes wear on heads and greatly reduce dropouts.
  
• 10 Cartridge Autoloader available.

The benefit of cleaning your DLT tapes is the assurance that your cartridges are functioning at optimum performance levels. By removing surface debris that interferes with head to tape contact, you greatly reduce dropouts as well as prolong the life of expensive magnetic heads. At 200 ips (inches per second) the DLTa cleaners can process a 1200 foot cartridge in less than three (3) minutes and an 1828 foot cartridge in less than four (4) minutes.

In one cycle the tape is automatically extracted from the cartridge, wrapped around four (4) automatically advancing tissue stations, cleaned by a sapphire blade (if engaged), optically inspected and then ejected. The automatically advancing cleaning tissues are made of non-shedding nylon material that are placed such that both the oxide and backsides of the tape are cleaned, both upstream and downstream of the sapphire cleaning blade. The cleaning blade, which burnishes the tape, is a precise bi-directional double-edged sapphire blade designed to remove debris adhered to the tape.

The Optical Scanning feature allows you to purge your library of defective cartridges. The optical scanner detects edge damage and tape deformities, such as creases and folds. An indicator on the control panel is provided that counts and displays the number of defects in the tape. After the tape has been cleaned/inspected, an UP and DOWN scan feature indicates the location of each defect that occurred. A print out option can also be added to allow the operator to have a hard copy of the scan information for each tape.
An Erase (E) option is also available that allows the operator to erase unneeded data from the tape, eliminating the need for expensive degaussers. Once cleaned, scanned and erased, the tape can be used with the assurance and reliability you look for in a new tape.
The Autoloader option allows the user to process a magazine of ten (10) DLT cartridges at a time for hands-off operation. This option gives the operator a simple PASS/FAIL indicator for each cartridge so that when a magazine of 10 cartridges is completed the status of each cartridge is clearly displayed.

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