Yes, yours is a more general description: "an element that can be in one state ready to print and then change that state once printed". The possible resolutions here are crazy. Check out this 17" wide 9-cartridge printer: . It has a resolution of 2,880 x 1,440 dpi. It would take a long time to print anything at that resolution as you point out. I do not think it is a problem given the potentialby gmerz - General
I'm guessing that there are materials like resin, silicone or other that will both have low viscosity and cure fast enough. The speed of printing may be adjusted accordingly. It may even be possible to use the same liquid as in a DLP projector based printer. The dots are very small, so could cure very fast. The liquid could be thinned out with alcohol that evaporated almost instantly. I don't knby gmerz - General
Cold 3D Printing V 2.0 I think I have cracked it, and it turns out to be much simpler than I first anticipated. First I like to remind the reader how Cold 3D Printing works: The 3D printer is basically an ink-jet printer, but instead of printing only a single layer of ink on a sheet of paper, it prints layer upon layer on top of each other to form a prism. Instead of ink, the material used isby gmerz - General
If I understand this correctly, the proposition is to print using melted wax that cools down and solidifies. When I was a kid, we used to drip candles over a glass of water. The wax floats and cools and you get these decorative wax plates. Anyway... What if a regular plastic printer was placed in a refrigerator and made to print wax. This could potentially be very high resolution. What if thisby gmerz - General
I am not capable of building this. I suspect ink-jet printers are complicated to build. It could be possible to reuse components from an cheap store-bought printer, but I doubt it. Concerns about nozzle clogging is probably well founded, but I'm guessing that it would be possible to mix and eject the liquid so fast that premature curing could be avoided even if the curing is very fast. Think aboby gmerz - General
This idea involves printing with two-component resins, glue / adhesive or silicone. The object is printed inside its mold. The object and the mold is printed at the same time layer by layer. The printing itself is similar to that of an ink-jet printer. Each layer is squirted out dot by dot on top of the previous layer. The components of the materials should be mixed just in time. The curing shby gmerz - General
I am looking for examples on building custom cases around guts of devices such as tablets and cellphones. What I mean to do is replace the case of a device with someting else. For example printing a new case that combines a tablet and a usb keyboard in order to make for example a lightweight ARM netbook. Also it might be cool to have a small laptop where the mousepad is the cellphone driving theby gmerz - General
I understand. ( I was so enthusiastic but then I was crushed by knowledge ) Looking forward to see how this tech develops. It is promising stuff.by gmerz - General
Thanks for the link. That project is ok. One can print small objects in high resolution and tiny objects in very high resolution, but there is no option to build large objects in normal resolution or even huge objects in low resolution. I don't see that they are taking advantage of the possibilities of the method.The build volume should be much bigger, and the design should be more modular. Butby gmerz - General
I'm reading about Perfactory, and it seems to me that their DLP printers may be very simple to build. The whole techology is in the liquid used and the other parts are very common. As a disclaimer I have to say that I do not know nearly enough about 3d printing to be commenting on this, but I feel like doing it anyway. The attached file depicts the basic system. How to make it work: 1. The liby gmerz - General