CrafteHbot Full Color 3D Printer DIY Kit

[Brian_Krassenstein]

Japanese company a-z-ia.net has created a most interesting 3D printer. The CrafteHbot Full Color 3D Printer DIY Kit, to be released February 2016, offers a new and more affordable twist on 3D printing in color in that it allows for the user to purchase and attach either a new or secondhand 2D inkjet printer, which basically paints the color onto the 3D model. Retailing at $2499 USD, the CrafteHbot kit offers a new patent-pending technology called ‘Direct to Object,’ which allows full color printing. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/111878/lunavest-c...ot-full-color/

[Sebastian Finke]

Thinking outside the box. I like.

[ServiceXp]

How does that work?

[curious aardvark]

interesting variation - but I still think the guys making the add on kit that pre-colours the filament will take the prize when they start selling units.
That just looks way too complicated.

[awerby]

Those samples they show aren't exactly convincing. It's not hard to get colors that fade gradually into one another like a rainbow. And ignoring the atrocious fidelity of that "map", it's a basically flat part, which doesn't resemble most of the things people actually print. I wonder how well inkjet ink really adheres to plastic anyway - my guess is that it would wipe off easily.