Full colour 3D printing at home with PolyDye - Open Source Inkjet integration

[@TeachingTech]

Jacques has solved my colour shift problem! It was the Z fade for ABL. Setting it to zero has allowed me to keep colour accuracy past 9-10mm. Very glad to see all of the compliments in these comments for Jacques' work. He really deserves it.

[@Kalvinjj]

Z fade height in Marlin has been one of my worst pains. It just always destroyed geometry for me, on my printer that homes at Z max, when reaching the bed (since I use either a PCB or 4 mm glass, so the height changes), when it has any Z fade, it just squishes the height until it matches what the printer measured as the start, so if the bed was supposedly 4 mm above zero, it will print something 4 mm smaller. I've since just disabled it and never looked back. Wonder if it now works better.

[@DjEdu28]

@@Kalvinjj eu utilizo essa altura de deslocamento em Z no Marlin. Mas antes faço todo o nivelamento manual usando papel e ajustando as roldanas. O ajuste por software é pra ser um ajuste fino, ele não vai nivelar a mesa. Após nivelar, coloco uma peça de grande área em contato com a placa de construção, e vou ajustando a altura em Z até perceber que a altura da primeira camada não está esmagada e nem alta de mais.

[@matthewmathis62]

Hey Michael, How is the strength of these parts? Very cool technology, definitely, but it makes me wonder if it affects part strength. Because ink is not plastic. Although, in the future, Jacques or someone else could modify this technology and make it only print color on the vast outer layer. This way, the color would only be on the outside. And the part strength would not be significantly affected. Maybe it's already that way, though. Edit: On a side note. I have an idea for how to print full range color, but it would have to be worked out by a company with a research team. It involves mixing up the dye with plastic as it is being extruded. It might have to be a small chamber that does it, and the inside of the extruder head would need something like a non-stick surface that is past the color chamber to keep the colors from sticking, and the resulting color from getting mixed with the previous (same issue we have today with multicolor single-nozzle printers). But, there are so many ways to do this. It's interesting to see people come up with ideas and implement them. What Jacques did is impressive.

[@Silverstar1995]

The idea of having a huge spool of white (or clear, for those translucent prints), and a few big bottles of cheap, non-specific ink, and being able to flawlessly print out full color, high resolution prints would be absolutely brilliant. I hope they keep it up and wish them great luck.

[@tuttuti123]

i wonder what are the odds that this become almost a standard to the point that it drives color filament prices up a bit but massively decreases the price on transparent filaments

[@SagittarA]

sounds good but in reality with this method you will NEVER achieve full color or high res, because it blends the white fillament with the dye making the color washed out with white and blurry. Also id wager the layer adhesion is suffering A WHOLE LOT by having a ink separation layer in between every layer of fillamet

[@PNGpyro]

@@SagittarA Nah, unwanted color bleed shouldn't be unsolvable; current filament is already pigmented white or clear plastic. They 'just' need to figure out a way of doing that on the fly. If this gets to the point of a full commercial release, I'd expect their roadmap to aim for using a custom cartridge and inks, which would likely be a huge step towards controlling bleed. Purpose-made filament would likely even go a step farther, and as long as it's cheaper in bulk than colored filament, it would likely be competitive, even if it sacrificed some mechanical properties. As far as layer adhesion - from what I saw, they only ink the skin of the print. While adhesion will definitely be affected, I'd imagine most problems could be tuned out.

[@tengertechnologies]

There is actually a old machine from the past that does that allready. XYZprinting Da Vinci Color. But it's a pain in th a** cause it uses proprietary ink/filament which is rfid chipped.

[@nathanvanniekerk8718]

Please can you guys try something like an ink tank solution, the HP cartridges look the same, might be a completely different communication protocol. Keep up the good work, would love to be able to do this kind of thing!!

[@gechgr1850]

Holy smokes!! This is pretty incredible. The solution to full colour 3d printing was always in inkjet paper printing all this time.

[@ericlotze7724]

If this could be made into a modernized and *Open Source* version of that laminated printed paper 3d printer that would be LEGENDARY

[@SianaGearz]

This has been around. XYZ da Vinci was already making a full colour 3D printer using HP industrial inkjet cartridges nearly a decade ago. Unfortunately i have never seen it actually really look good, and i don't know if the photos published by the project are a good representation of what it achieves, it's either too white and pale or too blurry too much subsurface scattering. It works well with absorbent surfaces where the ink modifies how the surface itself interacts with light, and this is just not how inkjet 3D printing works. We might not find a solution for it.

[@jtjames79]

Always has been. It was one of the first ideas. Getting it to work is the hard part. The really hard part. It's probably going to need filament support. As in filament specifically for taking color. That means you're also going to need multi filament support, so you can use the expensive stuff only on the visible edges.

[@panhem7149]

Mimaki is a ink jet printing company and they developed a color 3d printer that basically works like a inkjet printer just with CMYK resin

[@Tailslol]

Yea that will work very well with a ciss. Great idea.

[@mathewschau9361]

3d printing is truly a community driven hobby. Innovations like this seem to always be pioneered by hobbiest. Then 5-10 years later a company will package it up and sell it as a finished product. It's tough to see the open source community exploited for profit but also good that these difficult to implement technologies are adopted by the wider industry.

[@chadwickalexanderjr1758]

It's not just 3d printing. It's bad in software too. Plenty of companies will take open source code, slightly change it (or not) and sell it.

[@rickgreer7203]

@@chadwickalexanderjr1758 ...and patent it, and try to enforce their patent back onto those that created it. Even if it has no merit, the cost and risk to fight is high.

[@deejaymanners]

the thing is, getting adopted and reworked by big companies, make it possible to be available for a wider audience, because not everybody is geek enough to develop their own printers and make mods, some people just want to print and have fun.

[@Kevin-jb2pv]

Thing is that the 3d printing community has pretty openly _wanted_ this. They want to develop innovations in the public space and then have companies make an accessible version for the masses. This keeps big companies from locking down the field with patent and copyright BS. If new ideas are developed out in the open, no company can come along and try to claim it as their invention. The downside is that the creators are not often the ones to get rich, but the upside is that the 3D printing community has a remarkable amount of control over the space. That tends to happen when the market is dominated by geeks who can quite easily just build their own parts, printers, and accessories if companies piss them off enough.

[@jasenq6986]

@@Kevin-jb2pv that's a pretty good point. The convenience is also just way too good for most users.

[@kylek29]

If you hit the model with a high-gloss clearcoat it may make the color pop a tad more, that tends to work with inkjet prints on paper.

[@D-One]

My first thought aswell, would like to see it tested

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[@CF_Sapper]

Just when I start to feel smart someone comes along and does something like this and makes me feel like a caveman beating rocks together 😂 this is such an awesome idea! Well done to the creator!

[@Playco3D]

To be fair there was already a company that made this exact thing (just not a generic ink jet cartridge) about 3 years ago. I don't think doing color FDM is the future but rather something like Mimaki

[@falxonPSN]

The amount of effort that the designer has gone through to not just create the actual mechanism but to create thoughtful software that makes calibration less painful is very impressive. This is exactly the sort of thoughtful UX design that ends up missing in a lot of open source projects.

[@joeylopezdesign]

Oh this is GENIUS, having static png layers really really makes this compelling, having the ability to use the human-readable PNGs to modify, e.g. the colors, or details, using an app like Lightroom or even Photoshop or Gimp that can batch process multiple files at once, you can apply color swaps or saturation changes en masse to use on prints without having to go back to the drawing board and work on the texture's UV mapped art - which for some can be very intimidating. This is freaking great.

[@Rcmike1234]

Polyjet and other technologies that utilize 'inkjet' style printheads operate very similarly. Under the hood after everything is said and done it's all just bitmaps. Not sure about all the technologies but there are ways to access this and do your own simulations and output them to do true 'voxel' printing

[@dsp4392]

Working on UV mapped art directly is more intimidating than batch-modifying slices? ... ok

[@meateaw]

​@@dsp4392yes, batch image editing is trivial, you can change saturation/colour by batch easily. Modifying a 3d model and then reslicing and aligning every time you want to tweak the saturation of a model sounds like more work.

[@secv]

Blender has a texture painting interface where you can paint directly on the model as another option.

[@zombizettai]

Looks like a massive ammount of work has ben put into this project and the result speaks for itself. Thanks for sharing infos about this project

[@antneg-1776]

BTW, I wanted to say thank you Michael Laws for all the great teaching videos you have posted over the years. I've watched many of your videos since 2019 and this helped me to become proficient in 3D printing. I've gone on from my first Ender 3 in 2019 to 14 different 3D printers all modded and running smooth, to a small print farm. I've had a lot of enjoyment doing 3D printing. Thank you again as your videos help so many folks here on KZbin. 👍 God Bless

[@GlueTubber]

with 14 different printers, I'm sure you yourself have quite a story to tell - tell us more!

[@fouroakfarm]

The documentation and setup made for this is truly impressive. Huge amount of work. Look forward to seeing what the future for this looks like

[@ericlotze7724]

Modding it to use Tanks+Lines would be a must too in my opinion (although still being able to swap the cartridge/head eventually is a must as well)

[@fdsman]

Technically third parties make continuous ink systems that work with printers that use the 67XL cartridge shown in the video, presumably all you'd have to do is convert an empty cartridge over using one of those kits and you'd have what you're asking for without having to redesign the system.

[@RandoWisLuL]

@@fdsman ive seen those, thats a good idea

[@JohnHansknecht]

And sublimation inks that are colorfast after UV exposure.

[@FlintStone-c3s]

Greenboy3D pellet feeder instead of Filament too.

[@kimmotoivanen]

If you think about Ecotank style, they needs constant use to keep the print head running. If the head is clogged, the printer should be opened and the head IDK soaked in alcohol. Cartridges *with* head FTW 😅

[@limbeboy7]

I'm so glad he kept working on this. Hopefully, he puts out all the stuff for public to help build it. It has alot of potential!

[@MasterThief117]

It's crazy how no other company has tried experimenting with this for the consumer market. It's a known technology and such an obvious choice for multi-color prints without requiring multi toolheads or AMS. I'm just glad someone is taking the time to work on this and I'm even more glad Teaching Tech is here to share it with the rest of us.

[@J0nny_]

I wouldn't be surprised if they would like to but are blocked by some arbitrary patent troll

[@cokreeate]

Xyz 3d printer did something like this yra go. It was expensive.

[@killsalot78]

with how coy he is in this video about the actual controlling of the cartridge, and what carts to use, I am 99% sure this stuff is a bit swashbuckly, not that I care personally because IMO all 3d printers need this tech NOW

[@ButterfatFarms]

XYZPrinting, developer of the da Vinci line of 3D products, has announced the launch of a new full-color 3D printer. Aptly named, the da Vinci Color is capable of 3D printing 16 million shades from the CMYK color profile, all from your desktop. The da Vinci Color is the world’s first full color 3D printer to use XYZ’s 3DColorJet technology. 3DColorJet is essentially a combination of inkjet printing and fused filament fabrication (FFF). Between layers of PLA, the 3D printer mixes and fires droplets of colored ink. The advantage of this is that the technology can make full use of existing printer ink cartridges that have been available since the early 1990s, instead of trying to formulate a new way of combining plastic that in essence, does not blend.

[@andreamitchell4758]

It's good but I feel like this is the wrong direction. Instead of using ink jet technology they should be using either laser printer toner and a laser or sublimation dye printer tech instead. It's less likely to dampen filament, there is no worries about dried up ink or clogged ink Heads the color would be much more vibrant probably too. I think applying ink at the print head is the wrong approach too. There should be an AMS like unit that houses a colorizer chamber that the filament passes through where the sublimation dye or laser toner is applied before it gets to the extruder.

[@txwombat7826]

I hope that this really takes off - looks great with lots of room to grow.

[@MrUntermieter]

Awesome video, but an even more incredible adventure of having created such a pro-looking solution. Looks brilliant and very well done. Kudos.

[@jdl3408]

This is so cool! Congratulations to Jacques and Bianca for achieving this and thank you for showcasing it. This definitely looks like something that could mature into being very user friendly. My pessimistic side thinks there’s a company out there now looking at how to make a full color 3D printer they sell very cheap with DRM on the cartridges.

[@meateaw]

I mean, if HP want to make a commodity 3d printer accessory that adds full colour 3d printing for below (or at) cost and upsell via DRM locked ink I wouldn't complain. Hell, the fact this is designed around HP ink is a little humourous.

[@dave5194]

Hell yeah! I remember Make Anything & Blake3d's marker proof of concept and DaVinci's ink 3d printer and was wondering for a while if someone would pick up where they left off. The fact that this works with regular old off the shelf printer ink cartridges is awesome

[@hargert]

Glad to see some progress being made for full color at home.

[@firefly618]

This is amazing! The amount of work and the passion needed to develop something like this all by himself must have been huge. We all know PLA is porous and hydrophilic, so using it as a substrate for water-based ink is just ingenious. Wow.

[@LabRatJason]

Wow! I'll bet this becomes an out of the box feature for most printers within 2 years. That looks really good!

[@ElizabethGreene]

That depends on whether or not HP's patents they took on the PolyJet technology covers it. I don't know if it will or not.

[@LabRatJason]

@@ElizabethGreene I was thinking more along the lines of the concept of inkjet printing in general, as opposed to a re-purposed vendor technology. I'm not terribly familiar with the patents in this space, so maybe they've got enough coverage to keep everyone else out, but if HP smells a buck, maybe they could be enticed to collaborate.

[@thomaswiley666]

Thank you for showcasing a startup (of sorts) with a new take on 3D printing. It does have some obvious flaws, but that it successfully prints as designed is a great step forward.

[@cleetose]

It's not exactly a new idea, the Da Vinci Color tried this concept around 7 years ago. But hopefully this project will fare better then the original.

[@jabzilla21]

Seriously amazing project! This looks like the future of 3D printing. What I imagined it should have been.

[@ausfoodgarden]

Well, as I've got 4 x 3d printers and was a printer technician for over a decade, I've got to give this idea a shot! The colors may pop more if the model is either sprayed with gloss clear or covered with CA glue.

[@SaHaRaSquad]

This reminds me of a video of 3d printing nerd where they showed an industrial FDM printer that can - as I understand it - mix dye into the molten plastic, making it possible to print many colors including perfect transparency. Consumer devices are still far off, but wow - this is already impressive progress. 5+ years ago we had printer kits made of brittle acrylic parts, now we have filament swapping, toolchangers and inkjet coloring.

[@JohnnyBsKillz115]

THATS INSANE!! I saw a video on colored resin printing recently and these models look just as good! Wow!! I really really cannot wait to see this develop into something truly incredible!!!

[@phantom3474]

Dude I've been waiting for a long time for someone to do this idea. Thank you so much for sharing this experience.

[@Lemonade-lf2pc]

wow this is only the first step. very exciting innovations. 10 years from now this industry is going to be wide spread.

[@theredcelt627]

This is so freaking cool. I absolutely love this community. So many amazing projects and advances allowing this industry to flourish. I just hope the same kind of creativity and growth can start being applied to the CNC mill industry. I really want to branch into that as well.

[@mikeskerritt9618]

This is absolutely amazing, I wish them the best with the testing and eventual launch. All the best Mike Irish

[@Supersprint27]

Very exciting development, wow there are some clever people out there, mind blowing.

[@gljames24]

As with many others, I had this idea, but they actually did the engineering and figured out how it works. Props!

[@PiefacePete46]

Thanks Michael... thorough and informative as always. What an absolutely FANTASTIC job they have done! Sadly, I am not one of the fortunates with the necessary to help out with development, but I will glue myself to their progress! Keep chasing that "Holy Grail" of 3D printing... cost effective colour prints!

[@timetempest]

this is one of the most exciting things I've seen from 3d printing in several years. amazing work!!!

[@controversialrebel5639]

What a brilliant idea. Definitely something to watch out for as the system is further developed. A great intuitive video.

[@t8rka]

This is absolutely insane! it's an incredibly genious idea. Can't wait for modern firmwares to implement this!

[@pinch-of-salt]

bro this is impressive, this is great news for opensource inkjet printing as well

[@FlintStone-c3s]

Yep, suck on this Mimaki.

[@Diddy3.14]

I had this idea years ago I'm glad it finally caught on.

[@Cheezed_]

Very excited about the potential this has. I'm thankful that you are constantly keeping up with new technology.

[@Rawstock92]

Around 2012, the Z-Corp full color system was around $75k (USD) for the machine. The models had to be cleaned and resin infused; the process made cleaning resin prints seem like making toast! There was a vacuum infuser for very expensive resin ($3k per 5 gallons) that sold for around $30k. I was looking to run a small shop generating pre-surgical models from medical scan data, as well as architectural models (the primary intended use case); all-in, with the first round of supplies, there was easily $125k in start up cost.

[@chadwickalexanderjr1758]

And now a 1000 dollar P1S can do its job.

[@kensb2]

This looks super cool! It's probably beyond my current capabilities, but I truly hope enough people jump on-board to test this and get it to a final product. This seems pretty perfect for something like a KIckstarter campaign!

[@ZulkirVT]

the positive implications and the overall beauty of what can be done with this now, and in the future as it improves is INCALCULABLE!!

[@NathanBuildsRobots]

This is insane, great work!

[@felixman9691]

Wow. Thanks for sharing stuff like this, thanks for choosing to work on your pick and place machine too! Really appreciate your videos!

[@el3dprint]

It is sooooo nice! I was hoping this would develop as it did and now hope it will continue in the soon future to be making a kind of 'standard' available as add-ons for our cheap 3D-printers at home and some companies implementing this (again) for real without real high ink-prices.

[@barry-allan]

This is great, I'm probably experienced enough to try to join the testing and try it out myself. And this is a good enough price for the output in my opinion. However, I simply want to wait until the next stage of this before I try it. It's a genus idea and it's such a cool concept. Tell him great work and keep it up!

[@Blayzeing]

I've been waiting for this for years! So cool to see it being done!

[@yeroca]

Fantastic idea! Genius, I gotta say. Thanks for trying it out and bringing it to our attention!

[@robb233]

I love this. I've been waiting for an economical full color printing solution for years.

[@sydnerd]

this is brilliant! Props to the two, amazing work and results are speaking for themselves.

[@coledavidson5630]

13:02 this is absolutely unbelievable. Especially the images. And so cheap! I really hope this becomes more polished and accessible in the near future

[@JanVokas]

That will be perfect for idex printers. Just one head for white filament, other head for coloring (with some little "home" which will protect the head from drying).

[@tolkienfan1972]

Amazing. This is just what we need. I'm amazed they managed to reverse engineer the HP cartridges. I have an Epsom which actually takes liquid inc refills. Which has obvious advantages. May be worth a look. Again, kudos. This is awesome

[@monarchofrymden]

this is insane, can't wait to see how it improves even more

[@moshoshall2006]

Talking about innovation, this is about the best I've seen in a long time !

[@-canopus-513]

Insane what hes managed to develop in 4 years alone. Hopefully with it being accesible to the public now development will spped along. Cant wait to eventually beable to buy a somewhat finished ver in hopefully a few years.

[@explodinglabs7916]

Wow, what a great idea. Look forward to seeing more of this.

[@greytrucking3259]

That is so awesome and out of all upgrades, this is the one most interesting to me.

[@FlintStone-c3s]

Yep, more data for deciding my first FDM printer.

[@ragetist]

This is ingenious, I'm really interested on how this develops in the future

[@Zeldur]

I looove this idea. I can not donate energy or time at this moment, but this is already looking extremely promising.

[@jamesvictor2182]

Incredible work developing this solution, very promising

[@BRUXXUS]

Incredible work! What awesome dedication and commitment to making this tech work.

[@rickstaggs2376]

Brilliant idea and looking forward to it progressing further

[@Enjoymentboy]

Earlier this year I was chatting with a friend about 3D printing. I mentioned an idea I had but had no idea how to implement. He is an engineer and he thought the idea was interesting but he too had no idea where to even begin. The thought was to combine both inkjet printing technology with nanoparticle SLS printing. My thought was a powdered version of CA glue with the ink cartridges in the inkjet printer employing both a pigment and an chemical activator/catalyst. The printer would print it's layer spraying nano bubbles of activator which would then cause the powder to bond together. And just like with any inkjet printer you can have full control of the colour as it prints. No lasers, UV light, post washing/curing of resin, filament jams, or dangerously high temps. The thought was that this could literally be a desktop machine with a decent build volume but that would have a smaller, or similar, size footprint.

[@jamiexu6718]

stratasys patented and sells a version of your idea :)

[@Enjoymentboy]

@@jamiexu6718 Interesting. well, it's nice to know great minds think alike. :)

[@KentoCommenT]

Like a desktop version of HP's Multi Jet Fusion?

[@LeftJoystick]

That has existed since the 90s. Look up "CJP" ....and the first UV-curing resin printer came out in....wait for it....1989. Consumer tech is only now catching up.

[@nhiko999]

Fantastic project. Full color 3d prints... I can't wait for the next iterations!

[@arklanuthoslin]

Incredible. A ways to go for ease of use and color saturation, but WOW. This will change SO much for me, who doesn't really like painting or using filament for multicolor prints cause there's not enough colors to do it "right." With this I could, in theory, make the model, print it, then just get on with the post processing and weathering.

[@3DSomething]

Wow! It’s absolutely amazing! What a brilliant idea to make 3d printers more creative!

[@Danny.._]

This is so cool. Very excited for the future of this project.

[@satibel]

the case work is amazing, good fits and no heat set inserts.

[@williamsteele]

Nice!!! I remember the old inkjet kit... and this one added to an FDM printer is amazing. Order #1 placed! Shipping is very expensive... but I really want to support this project... so worth it.

[@francoismenard6704]

All the stuff that is going on in the 3d printing space lately is quite exciting. IMHO in around 5 years we'll be in 3d printing heaven.

[@Vukuzenzele]

Welgedaan, Jacques en Bianca! Dankie, Michael, dat jy dit op jou kanaal gedeel het.

[@dominickbrookes5103]

Always come to you for outstanding ding innovations

[@GreySectoid]

Fantastic, this will be the next big thing in 3d printin space I am sure

[@Aridanx]

Brilliant project and video, I can't wait to see the project come out of beta.

[@Subservient3d]

You build the best stuff, hands down

[@FilamentFriday]

This isn’t really new as XYZprinting used a similar ink jet system years ago on their color DaVinci 3D Printer. The problem was you had to use their cartridges. Colors also just kinda bled together and weren’t crisp just as you’ve found with this system. Nice to see an option that uses standard cartridges and open source.

[@JamesChurchill]

The idea is trivial and everybody and their dog has considered it at one time or another. Actually engineering a working device is not. And then there is the big patent troll in the space making sure to prevent anyone actually commercialising the technology.

[@hargert]

​@@JamesChurchillwho is it, my understanding is that the key techs at this point are all public.

[@JamesChurchill]

Stratasys has been tying up 3d printer technologies for decades, even the blatantly obvious ideas that should never have gotten a patent. The ones we use are generally the ones that have finally expired. They're currently suing Bambu Lab for the *idea* of using NFC tags on filament spools.

[@theonlymann1485]

​@@JamesChurchillhonestly idk if i should root for bambu for Strasys being a patent troll or strasys for Bambu being a chinese company which has notorious problems with patent stealing themselves

[@MrNorman91]

I'll wait until it's commercially available. Kudos to the team!

[@gabrielalbisay]

This is real inovation and creativity, I hope this can be implementend in comercial printers soon.

[@Merrunz]

This is amazing! I was leaning towards building a box turtle, but I kind of want to do this instead now. I like the way the prints look with the ink.

[@JAYTEEAU]

Well that's a pretty fantastic project, and an impressive amount of development

[@QUATTROMARCE]

I've always wanted a desktop mimaki🤗 thanks for your work

[@xxW00LYxx]

I love when new clever advancements come to 3d printing!

[@str8up598]

Layer Adhesion - print speed. As a retired Epson large format printer field tech I greatly admire the amount of work to merge the two technologies. I have used a single stamp pad color to tent clear petg on a lamp shade project. Staining the filament before extrusion.

[@TheBillzilla]

FWIW I thought that system up about 5 - 6 years ago, but found that it'd already been done before so I didn't pursue it. I'm very glad that's going to be an enthusiast-level version coming out.

[@davidharris7249]

Kudos ... this will be fantastic for modellers!

[@jshanab42]

Awesome, great idea. Sounds like we will be seeing a cover/wiper that a g-code actuates to keep the head clean and prevent drying out. Or maybe just a end parking place/clean that is off plate.

[@gerthddyn]

This is amazing. This fixes so many things if the colors are fast and stay. I'd be worried that they would rub off in the long term.

[@jerrari3D]

This is an outstanding concept!

[@Pauluz_The_Web_Gnome]

Nice vid. I will hop in when the colors are vibrant! 😊

[@jeffharrison5265]

This is awesome. Looking forward to it becoming more mainstream.

[@darkalleywaystudio3975]

Very cool. It definitely gives a softer look but I think it is just another tool in the basket and another way of printing multicolor. I don’t think this would replace current ways of multicolor but is another way of going about it. I will probably give it a try later this year for fun. Great job by the creator 👍

[@kiplinght]

Very cool, but I just can't see myself ever handing over money for HP inkjet cartridges ever again xD

[@sergeantsapient]

Well, since you're not dealing with an HP 2D printer's firmware to tell you you can't use a refilled Inkjet cartridge, there's nothing stopping you from buying the cartridge and refilling it yourself. You can basically look at it as a one-time purchase.

[@4crafters597]

Maybe in the future even that can be diy'ed

[@sergeantsapient]

@@4crafters597 Yep, or refined even. Inkjet cartridges were not intended for this purpose and probably have chemicals in them to help the dye adhere to paper. I'm sure there's different chemicals they can put in so it bonds better with certain thermoplastics.

[@Poorgeniu5]

@@sergeantsapient That makes me wonder, what if you use Sublimation ink instead?

[@sergeantsapient]

@@Poorgeniu5 I was wondering that too. The only reason I can think of it not working is that's meant for sublimation material which then transfers to another material. I don't know if there's anything in the sublimation material that helps with that transfer.

[@fluffycritter]

This is super cool. It reminds me of how the 3D Systems full-color printers work, except instead of using the ink as a gypsum binder it's just dyeing the print itself. Clever! Hopefully 3D Systems doesn't try to enforce their patents on this one, because this is a game-changer for artistic models. When this is a bit more mature and robust I'll definitely consider putting one of these together.

[@NLPexperts]

This is super cool. Do another video testing lacquers and varnish to make the colours pop. Also do buy semi transparent filament. Cant wait to try this

[@Azzysdesignworks]

As a long time printer user and the guy who usually ended up having to fix it I would suggest using a lab grade swab and distilled water to do any of the wiping for water-based inkjet. There needs to be a place that the head can park in between the print since most inkjet cartridges need to be used multiple times a day in order to keep the liquid in the head liquid and nonclogging. This is very cool and it would be exciting to see integration with different kinds of print cartridges and ink systems since the inks out there are so varied. A pigment ink system would be ideal so you don't have any kind of fading.

[@aPyroDesign]

I don't feel like I have the confidence to do this on my own, but wow I cannot wait until future easy versions of this are available.

[@kylewellman402]

Well, this is absolutely amazing. Looks like I have a new purpose for my ender 3 pro 😃 I like this idea much more than using it for parts in a custom build

[@IanBradbury]

It's so exciting that there are people out there thinking of crazy amazing ideas.

[@2dragonfire514]

mixing this with multi-material printing could be awesome. Using CYM filament and CYMK ink could reduce the faded look of the colors. here is my hypothetical integration: Given the color you want, you pick the CYM/white color closest to it, and pick that as your filament. Then you use the CYMK ink to pull the color to what you want, not using the color of filament you are inking onto. repeat for each layer...