Any brand's filament
eSun, Rosa3D, Sunlu, R3D, Landu, Lotactree, JamgHe, Smart3DPT, Filforme and others ship TigerTag spools: your printer reads them all, not only your own material.
For printer makers
Every spool, recognised by your printer.
TigerTag is the open, neutral NFC standard for filament: one chip that tells any printer what is on the spool and how to print it, whoever made the filament. Add TigerTag reading to your firmware in under 3 days, free, with no licence to sign.
- TigerTag chips in production
- 2.5M+TigerTag chips in production
- to add TigerTag reading to a firmware
- < 3 daysto add TigerTag reading to a firmware
- offline: no cloud, no account
- 100%offline: no cloud, no account
- to implement, forever
- 0 €to implement, forever
Why printer makers add TigerTag
Your customers buy filament from many brands. TigerTag lets your machine know every one of them.
Settings loaded on their own
The chip carries the material, colour, diameter and print temperatures: the printer sets the nozzle and bed itself, with nothing to type.
100% offline working
Everything needed to identify the material and print it is on the chip or in the open reference database: no cloud call, no account, no network.
Proof of origin
A TigerTag+ carries a signature your firmware checks offline: it tells a genuine catalogue spool, and a clone still works, it only fails the check.
Free and open
The specification is CC-BY-4.0, with an irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to implement it in any product. The SDKs are Apache-2.0.
Neutral by design
Owned by no printer maker and favouring no machine. A spool may carry more than one tag, and a reader may support more than one format.
Already read in printer firmware
The Snapmaker U1 reads TigerTag chips through the community Extended Firmware, and the Elegoo Centauri Carbon through the community COSMOS firmware with the NFC reader built into its Canvas. Both are independent of the printer makers.
A spec, a database, two SDKs
The byte layout is public and normative, the reference tables are an open database, and the JavaScript and Python SDKs read, verify and write chips. The chips are commodity NTAG 213, 215 and 216.
Questions from printer makers
How long does it take to add TigerTag reading?
Under 3 days for a firmware team: the chip is a standard NTAG with a documented byte layout, and the reference tables are an open database.
Do we need a licence or pay anything?
No. Implementing TigerTag is free, irrevocable and needs no permission: the specification is CC-BY-4.0, the SDKs Apache-2.0.
Does the printer need the internet?
No. Reading works 100% offline: the chip and the open database hold everything needed to identify the material and print it.
Does it replace our own RFID system?
It does not have to. A spool may carry more than one tag and a reader may support more than one format: TigerTag adds every independent brand to what your printer already reads.
Which printers read TigerTag today?
In firmware: the Snapmaker U1 through the community Extended Firmware, and the Elegoo Centauri Carbon through the community COSMOS firmware. Tiger Studio Manager 2 also monitors and controls Snapmaker, Bambu Lab, FlashForge, Elegoo, Creality and Anycubic printers, through each brand's own protocol.
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