Boy Tom’s hardware has really become dissapointing. Very little about the actual tech here.
What’s the consumable for this? Seemed like a lot of cartridge slots in that pretty useless video.
It mentions UV, so possibly a resin printer with some method of also depositing the resin onto the object surface before curing it with UV.
That’s my thought and maybe it locks up if you are low on resin and don’t order another OEM replacement cartridge?
The tech very much has existed for a few years now, but not on a home setting. I don’t know about this product because as you said there’s very little info, but as professional and industrial uv printers go the consumables would be the uv-curable ink (which is some nasty shit) and the parts that get in contact with it–printheads, caps, wipers, dampers, filters, pumps… not every printer has all of these but all will have some way of delivering the ink to and to clean the printhead(s). They have white and usually varnish inks, and they chug these two while the colour layer is similar to that of a regular inkjet printer. They also waste ink on the cleaning (that you’ll do a lot) and this one seem to include a tank or cartridge for fluid for auto-flushing. Also electric and electronic components degrade and fail as well. None of those come cheap, uv lamps are pretty pricy too but last long (I don’t know about this one, it seems pretty small. The ones I’ve seen are more robust with radiators and fans, the cheapest of which costs more by itself than this whole machine) if you take care of them.
Does this printer also leave a secret little signature with every print that can be traced back to you?
It seems like an interesting piece of kit. (Not $1500USD of interesting for me in the current economic climate, though, especially with no indication of Linux support.) Would be nice to know the cost of the consumables beyond the “starter ink bundle”. Would also be nice to know more about how the prints are expected to hold up long-term, and what the “nearly” part of “nearly any surface” implies—are there common substances it won’t print to?
Print what? I skimmed the article and I’m confused. Can you print an 3D Eiffel tower on a piece of paper? Or is it more like you’re printing things with a small emboss/raised edge? I didn’t even realize that was something people wanted to do. Maybe for custom tiling?
I guess things like covers, phone cases, mugs, stickers, magnets, frames or anything made out of wood, leather and so on. Probably something you would make for clients, not for yourself.
The latter. Think an inkjet printer with uv-curable ink, and instead of paper it prints on anything you can put on its bed. They come with white ink, and usually varnish. You can make some relief with more quantity/layers of white and/or varnish. In industrial/professional shops is rare to see these ‘3d’ (also referred as 2.5d) effects, I only know one that prints high-end-ish pieces (for a big markup I guess) and one that specializes in prints for blind people so they use it for putting braille in lots of things, mainly for the time it takes (and I’m talking about professional machines) so most people do flat prints that are also pretty cool.
More details here: https://www.eufymake.com/eufymake-uv-printer-e1
Not clear how much the refills will run.
Wow, that’s really impressive. I don’t really know why, but I want this.
Though I initially thought it was handheld, which would make their claim to be able to print on nearly any surface a little more believable. Still seems like incredible tech.
Can’t see anything about the price.
Early bird pricing starts at $1,499 for printer and starter ink bundle.
Second paragraph.
It should have been in the headline.
