Concept: full color 3d printing with no waste
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Just a concept:
with DaVinci providing filament made for inkjet printing ink, could you put a USB driven inkjet printhead behind/in front/beside(idex) the regular filament printhead and inkjet print color onto each layer..? kind of a poor mans polyjet. I saw the 'print full color using sharpie markers' but everyone says using the markers affects print layer adhesion. This way you would print a layer using filament, then print inkjet ink onto the outside layers, then move up for the next layer etc. Now waste, full color. Worth exploring? -
@Pyper inkjet coloring has been done in the past and RRF did have some basic support to control inkjet heads in the past (I dont know if that is still in source). The drawbacks to this approach are that the colors are ususally limited to light and muted, i.e. it'll be hard to get vibrant blues or reds.
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@oliof
as if on cue!
https://youtu.be/J1wz8S9rTI8?si=336JVNOTmP4rH9oB -
@Pyper yeah and you can see a pretty neon-ish/pink leaning light/muted color palette on the print sample (-:
