The 'Ultimate Filament Colorer'

[Egon van Engelen]

Great idea, thanks for sharing!

[Geoff]

I mentioned this to my wife, and in about 15 minutes we had come up with about 10 other things to use other than sharpies. She generally buys the school stuff for the kids, and apparently we have a very poor selection of Sharpie colours in Australia, so I personally would look at using something else, then printing an attachable system to the back of the machine, ideally small enough to clamp on the tubing or similar. Going to run a bunch of tests this week, will post pics with diff materials and diff plastics. I would assume clear and white work the best.

[beebenutz]

I mentioned this to my wife, and in about 15 minutes we had come up with about 10 other things to use other than sharpies. She generally buys the school stuff for the kids, and apparently we have a very poor selection of Sharpie colours in Australia, so I personally would look at using something else, then printing an attachable system to the back of the machine, ideally small enough to clamp on the tubing or similar. Going to run a bunch of tests this week, will post pics with diff materials and diff plastics. I would assume clear and white work the best.

I had a gentleman try using 3mm white filament and found the color to be less than satisfactory. Apparently the 3mm white filament also had some lamination issues (this may be due to either too much coloring when added to the white coloring already in the filament, or a mechanical issue with his printer). I am going to try using 1.75mm white filament soon. I will post results!

[Roxy]

I had a gentleman try using 3mm white filament and found the color to be less than satisfactory.....

My Brown Sharpie turned into a light Purple with White filament. And the White I have has lamination issues just like his....


Brown_Sharpie_on_White.jpg

[CaptainObvious]

I mentioned this to my wife, and in about 15 minutes we had come up with about 10 other things to use other than sharpies. She generally buys the school stuff for the kids, and apparently we have a very poor selection of Sharpie colours in Australia, so I personally would look at using something else, then printing an attachable system to the back of the machine, ideally small enough to clamp on the tubing or similar. Going to run a bunch of tests this week, will post pics with diff materials and diff plastics. I would assume clear and white work the best.

I think one of those filament filter thingamabobs could be used as a starting point, put a sponge or a stack of inkpad discs inside and add some drops of ink. Then it would be a matter of finding what type of ink work best.

[Bassna]

Does anyone still use this sharpie trick? Seem's pretty useful.