How about full color, 1200 dpi 3d printing? It's actually based on inkjet printing technology. I can't wait for this to trickle down to the consumer level!
This video came across my YT feed the other day and I was practically drooling over these results. Then come to find out this has been around for a couple of years and I hadn't seen it until just now? Home/consumer printers that can do this will be so radically different than what we're using today. I suspect it will be some type of hybrid inkjet that is shooting out not just color, but the material as well without the basin full of messy powder, but dry material with a UV binder that builds similar to an FDM printer but is as fast and detailed as a resin printer. I have no idea how they'll actually do it but that's my 3D printing holy grail. -Mike
Amazing, and one day it will just be a thing, one day! Really interesting video and the person explaining it really cool!
Mind blowing! The flagship model doesn't have a price (if you have to ask, you can't afford it, I guess), and it's smaller sister model costs $40K... I looked closely at that little tiny couch--I wonder if reporting marks and paint schemes could be printed cleanly and vividly enough to omit decals? The couch looked great, but seemed like the technology hasn't caught up enough to make the colors bold, sharp and opaque enough for our niche. The next step is a variety of resins to give choices in durability or flexibility, like resin 3d printers do today. Thoughts?
Full color, 1200 dpi 3D printing sounds like the future! It's incredible how inkjet technology is making its way into the 3D printing realm. Imagine the possibilities for us consumers when it finally hits the mainstream. Can't wait to see the vibrant creations people will come up with
The 3D lab at the university had a unit that could handle 8 different (well, not too different due to melting points) materials or colors for FDM printing. This was back in 2014. The newer technological developments are really fantastic- the resin printers back then were expensive and not very good. Today for $200 bucks you can print with fabulous detail and the materials are stable.
The 3D Printing Professor has the Bambu Labs AMS, and I believe has just started testing the A1 Mini. Color printing continues to work its way to down to consumer level.
I think it was around 2015 or so there was an outfit called XYZ Printing that produced the "Da Vinci" printer that had what I thought was a good answer for color printing. It had problems but the gist of it was that it printed with white filament, then did a pass of color on the outside perimeter of the completed layer using an inkjet nozzle on the extruder housing. The filament would soak up the ink and you'd get a color print when it was all done. The problem is that it always squirted the same volume of ink regardless of layer height settings, so thicker layers resulted in much more diluted/faded colors. 2015 was still relatively early days for consumer FDM in that there wasn't much innovation in hardware and software so things were still somewhat crude. I'd love to see someone try this method today and improve upon that concept. Okay - before clicking "post" I Googled and it looks like this company is still in business and has improved the machine and apparently still sells them? Colors still aren't as vibrant, but I still think this is something that can be improved and makes the most sense to me without a radical shift in consumer level tech: More examples from their website: https://www.xyzprinting.com/en-US/stories/falling-in-love-with-3d-printing-using-the-da-vinci-color Cheers -Mike
The 3D Printing Professor reviewed the DaVinci printer, but around 2019 I think. He kept having trouble with the magenta ink, as I recall. The company sent 2 or 3 cartridges to try to fix the issue. He too noted that the colors weren't sharp and there might have been color bleed issues, too.
for a filament type...i think all you need is a filament feeder for how ever many colors you need and cut them ect as needed . (its a lot of work ) for a machine to be fully auto would be very expensive for a filament type printer . it can be done though. ive though about this with my printer timing is key or just sit there and baby sit the thing till you need a new color then time it and cut insert new color.
