I Built the World's Best Digital Color Printer!

Hey everyone back again with more Scrap Mechanic! Today we are looking at an epic digital printer I built which gives the user a computer to design an image with and then paints the image using the paintball mod!
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[@DenKonZenith]

"It's easier to just delete the whole printer and spawn a new one." Ahh, so the average inkjet then.

[@M22TONK]

inkjet stonks be like

[@harrymash1531]

Splatoon 3 hype

[@BLKBRDSR71]

😂

[@Leftysrev3nge]

Lifehacks that work on more than just in-game scenarios.

[@MadJack1]

5:50 "it's really quite simple!" Kan is becoming the scrap mechanic equivalent of Mumbo Jumbo

[@amusedapple4933]

Yeah it’s funny how similar they are

[@na1bestcarfrfrnocap]

Omg your right

[@gespnit]

Yes

[@CopiHuman]

Happy to see more "logic" projects, they're really fascinating. Neat printer! Also, slightly bugs me that the print preview in the thumbnail is a pixel taller then the printed image haha. Great work!

[@sethcushman5454]

Maybe DPP can add a paint sniper or something that only paints one block at a time with no randomness. Also some ideas for optimization would be to have it fire twice for each pixel, to fill them out more, and maybe have it skip lines with no color on them, although that might be harder. Anyways this is so cool! I love it when people use logic to make things in video games.

[@-LAWAN]

for people who don't understand logic it's easy to suggest but for those who understands logic you can't think of anything because how hard it's to make

[@sethcushman5454]

@@-LAWAN I'm not super into logic, but I do understand it some. I agree that the line skipping could be hard, but I do think having the paint gun shoot twice would be at least relatively easy. Of course Khan doesn't have to do it if he doesn't want to, I just was listing some ideas.

[@justyouraveragenerd5152]

Drawing anything with this will make it an ink blot test, which would be funny for Multiplayer Monday "And what do you see here?" "It's a.... cat?" "It's supposed to be a horse..."

[@brutace9219]

You should use this for a multiplayer Monday, to do a throwback with a pictionary. Maybe it could be a 2v2 with each person trying to copy half of a set picture.

[@SCOP_]

I swear, this man is the mumbo jumbo of scrap mechanic Edit: ok fine I fixed the typo, now shut up

[@masonkpiano]

Mumbo Jumbo**

[@scrap-godsuper-zo4740]

Yes

[@Luftmysza.]

Jumbo jumbo

[@easygoing4964]

mumbo mumbo*

[@lollipopplayz85]

Mumbo Jumbo*

[@-spyler]

meanwhile scrap man is struggling to build a self driving car 😂😂

[@Tall_twink]

A way for it to look better is if it does the exact same thing twice over so it should connect the paint

[@snelake]

or just shoot twice every time

[@CopiHuman]

it's still just a chance it'll look good, I think a better solution would be using unpaintable blocks around each pixel

[@MKAOHD]

Loving the ‘it’s actually quite simple’-projects!

[@Jonathan-ki4iz]

I don't know how the mod works, but wouldn't it be possible to have a frame, perhaps on a piston around the spudgun? This would eliminate all spill between pixels and allow the pixels to be smaller.

[@PasiFourmyle]

I hope you guys do another April fools video next year. This reminds me so much of the one year you and ScrapMan made creations for each other.

[@KamiSlayer86]

I love this kind of stuff. Big project I would never have the time to do is fun to see.

[@golett0331]

Could you not just surround each "Pixel" in glass and make them smaller? Yes, you have some clear gaps between each colour, but you won't have any "paper" showing. Of course, you could just have the spudgun shoot twice. Furthermore, if you were to figure out how to make it quicker, you could, instead, have it "reprint" as it resets to its original position. Also love how you and Scrapman released scrap mechanic logic videos on the same day, probably without coordinating it.

[@vibaj16]

won't it just splatter past the glass?

[@golett0331]

@@vibaj16 I don't know

[@alexanderpolete3801]

I was thinking a stencil method, where only a one-pixel gap exists and the stencil is moved so that only one pixel is colored at a time

[@vibaj16]

@@alexanderpolete3801 how would it prevent color from going past the stencil?

[@alexanderpolete3801]

@@vibaj16 I'd assume the way a stencil would block paint in real life, but that might not be programmed into the mod now that I think about it

[@Pystro]

Here's a way how you could get perfect square pixels: You print on a double sheet of "paper" that consists of two glass layers with an air gap between those, and then on the outside of the glass layers you place a checkerboard pattern of printable pixels. The paint guns would then need to print on the paper from both sides (with logic to only make the one shoot that isn't above a glass pixel). To finish the picture up, you weld the two sheets together, with the printable sides towards each other, so that the checkerboards mesh together into one flat single sheet. And the final step would be to feed that glass and paper sandwich through a de-glassing process, which simply consists of a line of spudguns on the top and bottom that blast the glass (you don't quite need to strip the bottom, but it's handy if you want to ever reverse a page, for example if you make a symmetric 2-sheet painting). That way, you could also shrink the pixels to 6*6 or maybe 5*5 blocks.

[@Woofles1759]

Kan explaining quantum physics - "It's really quite simple"

[@xiphido]

Here's an idea. It would probably be complicated to do, but could you find a way to switch the color of the print mid-cycle by setting up too many paint guns to shoot the printer?

[@bohabdestructo7489]

Add sheets together to make high definition larger images.

[@CMWolfMagic]

You could set up an auto color changer by using the paint guns to color other paint guns. Hard part would be determining the color automatically without needing to test each pixel with a color sensor.... Midsentence thought, use the paint gun trick from earlier to change the sensor color until it detects the correct color.

[@CubsYT]

1. I can think of a few different ways to make this paintball gun paint in 1x1 pixels rather than big splotches, the best one involving shooting the same color in the same spot over and over until you (almost) always get a perfect circle. If you then offset that circle one pixel to the right and repeat, then move on to the next row and repeat etc, you will end up with a 1x1 pixel resolution image. 2. You could absolutely make it print in all colors without needing to manually use the paint tool. The "best" way would be to simply blueprint edit together one paintgun of each color into the same spot and you're pretty much done, or if you don't want to blueprint edit then putting them in a row, and offsetting where you shoot by 1 pixel for every color change (Meaning that if you swap to blue, the third color, it would offset the paint gun by 3 blocks before shooting it) 3. To combat the problem of not having a colored display, if you're allowing blueprint editing then you could blueprint edit one lamp of every color into the same block, meaning that the lamp you activate is the color of the pixel. However if you don't want to use blueprint editing, simply just letting the player paint onto a canvas with their paint tool, and then using lots of colored sensors to detect which colors you've painted would be a really nice way to solve the problem. Would probably be even better than pressing buttons to move around the "paper".

[@MadMikael]

You mentioned that you could scan colours from an image and reproduce them... if you feel so inclined, I think reproducing Scrapman's image from the workshop would be hilarious!

[@GameBoy-ep7de]

Someone needs to weld 2 of these together, then move the spud gun from one to another so that it can print 2 layers at the same time.

[@Xmar4]

Lol, you should get a screenshot or something of that print and make it you're logo for a little while. That's SUCH a cool build

[@anteshell]

Could you make different coloured guns pointing at the one gun to change its colour so that you could print multi-coloured pictures? Another solution would be to make a rotating cassette to hold all the differently coloured spudguns which would the turn to make the correct gun to shoot.

[@BLKBRDSR71]

kAN: "It's a pretty simple system" My brain: I'M MELTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@iscreamsandwich716]

“High-eyes low quality kAN isn’t real, it can’t hurt you.” High-eyes low quality kAN:

[@thatlittlefox.]

I just like how the paper is called "bad printer paper".

[@Trailmaker.]

Kan explaining logic is like mumbo jumbo explaining redstone

[@Baer1990]

maybe cluster together 4 paint spudguns? better coverage and close to the same area

[@crazyjack3357]

Would be cool to have it print vertical so you could have it print say a wall of a building

[@CopiHuman]

you'd just need to turn it sideways right?

[@MahBor]

YESSS!!! Please bring back the logic creations!

[@RealTheScienceCat]

pictionary would be the best with this!

[@Glocktopus42]

It's been a while since a solo scar video! Hell yes so excited!!

[@ed0c]

you could do different colors and expand this HUGE lol, would be a logic nightmare but very cool concept. also to correct for the RNG, you could also send the same print job through multiple times, should fill in the gaps eventually.

[@Kenya_Berry]

What if you use two paint guns to double up the pain used in one spot, increasing the amount of paint per pixel

[@blutregnet]

I'm watching this while drunk... all imma remember is the sound of kAN's voice talking at me. Absolutely love it

[@RedPandaYosh]

Try multiple paintball printer heads to paint a full line at a time. Make a laser jet.

[@AshenBlight]

Reid Captain did something similar with a “3D Printer” using blocks out of vacuum tubes

[@SCOP_]

Yeah, Reid captain should get more recognition, his videos are really good

[@Robododobobo]

@@SCOP_ lol I thought you guys were the same account

[@SCOP_]

@@Robododobobo lmao

[@memeberfunk2731]

This would make a neat challange vid. Each have 3-5 topics to print, And maybe a guest like yanik could judge 🤔

[@Midrealm_DM]

Could you use sensors to choose what areas to print, and build a model of what you wanted printer, with each layer of depth being a different color?

[@joshuanine7690]

I love the flaming green eyes

[@skwarks]

I love the amount of time he says 'simple', when its anything but. Cool build tho, very creative.

[@Dharonious]

That's awesome and hilarious. Absolutely play pictionary!!

[@zachrodan7543]

that is quite the inkjet needs a bigger array size (if you make it 17x106, you can print tupper's self-referential formula)

[@gabeevers8281]

People like to make fun of people who say logic is "simple." What they don't seem to realize is that "simple" does not necessarily mean "easy"

[@redpug5042]

when i saw the painting thing, this was my first thought, but I was hoping there would be a way to get a precise amount painted i also thought you could use it for compact memory using colors for numbers (i can use base 10 (10 colors) because it's convenient to use)

[@DanielMether]

Today Kan teaches us that "simple" and "easy" are NOT the same thing.

[@Layow.]

Lol that stickman tho! Looks like it wants to die

[@mrnobody.4069]

I wish you would make scrap mechanic Robots again, I also wish you could make integrated circuits within one logic block, you could have almost like a logic block with like a bunch of little tiny logic gates inside it that can be customized and they have their own connection point and they can be programmed to do different things and that would be awesome for robots and compact builds and with upgrades you can add complexity, another idea also came into my head in theory you could make a neural network in scrap mechanic mechanic. You don't have to do any of that Kan I'm just saying stuff, but a new challenge would be a 3D printer! The logic block thing was an idea I wish there was a mod of.

[@Junk_cars_kid]

Not very limited by the size of the paper if you make like ten papers into one picture if you think about it it could get super detailed

[@Naomi_Boyd]

Now turn it into a 3D printer for building cardboard castles. XD

[@superolo]

I was waiting for it!!

[@danejones7051]

you should make an espisode where you make a musium and show case your discords paintings, and give them bronze silver gold.

[@danejones7051]

absoloutly fantastic kan.

[@zodiakgames]

I love seeing kan make these kinds of things Next: rgb version? Copier version? I have ideas for doing both

[@glowytheglowbug]

make a printer that prints a printer that prints a printer?

[@ReliaRainIsAwsome]

Team paint ball, both teams haveboth colors. When your mainly a diffrent color (or have a zone in witch controls witch team you on) you switch team, the point is dubbled for who started in that team

[@leaderbot_x400]

Kan you should check out the programmable computers mod

[@CrewChief51L]

if you squint real real hard it looks almost like your logo lol. Great build I was impressed.

[@mohdnazimrosli8535]

KAN ! Make a battleship boardgame in scrap mechanic using the printer mechanic please!!! you put down small explosive as your ships and your opponent controls where to shoot.

[@zackyplux9520]

I think I know why the paint won't be away full or such, it because of the game poor physic for that. Also, nice work

[@awsomesaharsh9906]

it's not full because the paintball mod is supposed to be random so it is not an accident

[@Kesuaheli]

Wouldn't it be possible to make a kind of "HDD" to store bits you could use a black an white paint gun and a sensor. That way it doesn't gets reseted an one could even save something an push it to the workshop. Imagine a cartridge system where you could download images from others an print them. (Well that would be more a copy)

[@abysswalker2403]

if you figure out a way to display color maybe you could use OTHER paint guns to paint the main paint gun so the pixels dont get moved due to having multiple

[@alexandretherrien1234]

It's been a while! I love this type of video!

[@vpstvids9138]

Another great video Mark!

[@Krokmaniak]

If "head" of the printer was 3x3 it would probably work better in sense that there wouldn't be gaps but pixels would be bigger and overlapping by single pixel

[@jacobobinator]

Wait I just have the best idea for like a multiplayer Monday or something. You should combine this with the potato internet thing from a while ago to send it across the map

[@ltcolthorin8661]

I really want this to be the next multiplayer Monday

[@ETG168]

Fun Fact: SM is Turing complete

[@RatoCavernaBR]

You don't seems to have a self wired xor gate. That is the smallest memory cell of all and very useful for logic stuff. Do you wanna one?

[@Playa_in]

Watch these prints hit NFT's market next week

[@maggotDTV]

Im before Multiplayer Monday Pogo Stick

[@benr1286]

What about the classic logic game of mastermind in scrap mechanic? Maybe even multiplayer Monday theme of board games?

[@bl4cksp1d3r]

Congratulations, you created a Fax machine

[@redfally4]

Multiplayer Monday Pictionary idea?

[@verrueckteriwan]

you basically made a dot matrix printer, or how old fax machines worked I am sure you can optimize this alot to use less logic gates, skip empty spaces and rows etc., maybe add 3 printer heads (rgb) and boom, you have a modern printer with shitty resolution :D still nice work and it explains to less tech savvy people why printing in high resolution takes way more space (aka ram) on a printer compared to a compressed image on your pc ;)

[@Krebzonide]

could you make the paper like 3 blocks thick and print on the back to make it more accurate?

[@KaneyoriHK]

It's Screaming Edit: also pictionary with this printer for a mm might be interesting

[@justinpatterson5291]

I wouldn't even know how to make a printer. Logic makes my brain go hurrrrr.

[@benmcbride3721]

Now make it into a 3d printer x,y,z, axis and make it shoot blocks like the road building creation

[@pugz3230]

This isn't the world's worst color printer. It's the world's worst _functonal_ color printer.

[@minhze]

Now i want to See a 3d printer. Like a big Box of cardboard and spudguns on every side can like carve a shape :D and also some paintguns to paint the sculpture. Sadly im a noob in scrapmechanic.

[@mohammadnazriabdsamad8286]

That is more of a CNC machine than a 3D printer. A 3D printer would require a print head with a chest and vacuum pump that shoots blocks.

[@VKURDR]

are there some sort of transparent blocks to paint and add layers for 3D art?

[@mkDaniel]

Reminds me of dot matrix printer.

[@Naro_Rivers]

Would it be possible to make a more precise print head by having it shoot at a hole just above the page?

[@donovanreid427]

What if you make it double up the paint?

[@UnknownZYX_4085]

So much blue!

[@Zjenks]

He's like mumbo jumbo but in scrap mechanic

[@Leftysrev3nge]

Certainly with some more logic shenanigans, you can have it print bidirectional. As well skipping the blank lines.

[@XeridoxVisualArts]

Logic is so much fun :)

[@NemNem2nd]

That NASA PC of your is strong

[@sortius_]

It's an early dot matrix printer!

[@scrapper6936]

Kan buildsa super complicated computer Him: it's really simple Me: doesn't understand anything

[@AkariEnderwolf]

So, I haven't been able to make working memory bits recently in Scrap Mechanic, they always seem to just spasm rather than functioning as an actual memory bit. I tried following your old tutorial but feel like I did something wrong since everything started spasming out. was just trying to set up a door that would open for a time, then close. I feel like i should understand memory bits, but for some reason mine just don't work right.

[@etheraelespeon1986]

Oh, that’s a normal issue with the NOR+NOR looped memory cells. Certain exceptional circumstances (mostly just spawning them in for the first time) will cause them to oscillate like that. You can fix it with an AND gate with inputs from…. try either inputting both NOR gates or one NOR and the middle OR gate, then try hooking the AND gate’s output into one of the NOR gates. It’s been aaaages, and i don’t remember how exactly the timings work out, but something like that should fix it. Basically: Use an AND gate to check if both NOR’s are on at the same time, (something that should never happen normally), then give one an input from it to ensure it stays off.

[@DreadEnder]

You logo looked more like a bell

[@RealPanzer999]

Now all we need is a MM with this as pictionary & you have to have 2 layers Points: 1point per person who guesses your drawing 2points for guessing it right with anonymous guesses the second person gets 1 point & following would get 0

[@MindOfJack05]

This reminds me of that stuff made here video

[@kiveonn]

fiiinally a logic build from kan, tho it's a really simple one which is kinda disappointing... hmm maybe I'll build this but with way less gates lol

[@TodayVoyage9212]

For anyone going to the comments looking for reassurance that your not the only one understanding none of this. But I'll summarize it for you, "It's really quite simple."

[@oriontherealironman]

Pulls out connect tool: Spaget

[@Pianootje]

Kan doesn’t need a irl printer