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Booya IDEA as a Ben Heck Mod

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He has built a one headed 3D printer...

 

He has built a two headed 3D printer...

 

Now...

 

Ben should build a THREE headed 3D Printer!!!

 

Whats so special? Make it an RGB 3D Printer!

 

 

BOOYA! Your mind is blown!

  • First RGB?  When printing, mixing colors is CYMK. I did see that there is already a 4 head printers out there already.  http://www.hyrel3d.com/ has one that has 4 changeable heads.  (It can also print clay and playdough.)

     

    If we want to stay with just extrusion as a means of printing real CYMK is very dificult to pull off and must be done to prepair the filament itself before printing.  If you don't blend the colors beforhand, your filament will come out as blended as a tube of old Auqafresh (note:Aquafresh came out in red white and that aquamarine color allreally separated.)

     

    If you really wanna do color printing a better way to go would be with an powder bed inkjet printer.  Resolution of the final object is limited by the printhead resolution.  Also lamination (printing binder onto thin layers of materials then slicing out the shape of the layer then adding the next layer) could produce a similar output.

     

    And to mention the other types of printing, stereolithography and sintering work by fusing and hardening layers of material, be it powder or liquid.  This makes it harder to produce a CYMK printed object.

     

    A powderbed injet would be the best way to go for the type of printing you are sugessting.

  • in reply to Former Member

    Thanks for the reply. But Im not talking about blending plastics to make another color. Im just saying give the option to create an object with three different colors.