To be fair I can make a 3D printer work more easily and for longer without any maintenance than a regular ass printer. I get that inkjets are actually super complex but bro there are now cases where it is literally easier to make a thing than to print out a picture of that thing.
ever seen one of those $200k stratasys “polyjet” resin 3d printers for medlabs? i bet you they’re like inkjets cubed to service, minimum. if that tech ever makes it to consumers we’ll be doomed.
if you’ve gotten a mouth guard made by a dentist recently where they just scan your teeth, that’s a 3d printed part. the ones that look the most spectacular are the anatomical models for surgery, where they can take something like an mri of a problem area and print it out with a mix of materials and colours that makes them realistic enough to practice on.
content warning: 3d printed hand and foot parts with visible veins
as far as i understand it they can do full CMYK as well as mixing material to requested hardness and consistency on the fly.
To be fair I can make a 3D printer work more easily and for longer without any maintenance than a regular ass printer. I get that inkjets are actually super complex but bro there are now cases where it is literally easier to make a thing than to print out a picture of that thing.
Guess it’s time for someone to start 3D printing documents with 1 layer high text
You can attach a pen to the print head to build a plotter quite easily.
https://travisbumgarner.github.io/gcode2dplotterart/
Time to start submitting documents as 3D-printed stone slabs.
Time is a flat circle.
That’s because you can actually access everything
ever seen one of those $200k stratasys “polyjet” resin 3d printers for medlabs? i bet you they’re like inkjets cubed to service, minimum. if that tech ever makes it to consumers we’ll be doomed.
What do they use it for?
if you’ve gotten a mouth guard made by a dentist recently where they just scan your teeth, that’s a 3d printed part. the ones that look the most spectacular are the anatomical models for surgery, where they can take something like an mri of a problem area and print it out with a mix of materials and colours that makes them realistic enough to practice on.
content warning: 3d printed hand and foot parts with visible veins
as far as i understand it they can do full CMYK as well as mixing material to requested hardness and consistency on the fly.
Now that’s fascinating.