Honeycomb Graphics' New 3D Printing Techniques Revealed

[Brian_Krassenstein]

Honeycomp Graphics, a company located in Santiago, Chile, has been working on several new methods of 3D printing for years now. It was only recently that the company was able to obtain substantial funding so that they could file the necessary patents and begin moving forward with alliances within the industry. A Recent patent application has revealed their plans, which includes numerous processes of printing in intricate detail and color. More details about each of these techniques which are outlined in the patent application can be found here: http://3dprint.com/62836/honeycomb-graphics/

Let's hear your thoughts on these approaches? Is Honeycomb Graphics onto something special? What do you think? Below is a gif outlining one of these processes of filament colorization:

[curious aardvark]

Hmm, well call me a cynic but all i see is someone thinking up as many theoretical methods of 3d printing as they can to file as many patents as they can so that when someone does make an actual working machine, they can shout patent infringement ! and get money.

They claim that the hardware has existed since 2007 - yet they don't actually have any.
You're not telling me that they couldn't have built at least one working prototype in 8 years.

[raysspl]

This is definitely a step in the right direction. Fascinating.

[curious aardvark]

trying to corner the patent market in full colour fff 3d printing techniques is a step in the right direction ?

The direction being what exactly ?

[mosaicman]

In this article it states that Honeycomb Graphics hasalready developed one of their patents and is a few months away from the first prototype of the color FFF patent
http://3dprintingindustry.com/2015/0...ew-techniques/

[curious aardvark]

that's pretty much word for word what brian posted.

There's no actual evidence of a company doing anything other than trying to corner the market in full colour printing patents.

Given that there are at least two actual existing machines on the way to give full colour printing a lot of different ff machines. I guess it's a race to see who gets their patents approved first. The people actual making the real equipment or the people just trying to profit from virtual ideas.

[mosaicman]

Hi curious aardvark,
actually there are many more than 2 companies bringing color variants for fff to market. The thing is that not all of them use the same principle. What you're stating is similar to saying that FFF and SLS are the same, as they are all 3dprinting...
And patents don't work the way you propose, it's not about who gets it first, only one person or company can get a patent on a specifically technology or idea. If 2 patents run in parallel with the same idea, priority is for the one that FILED first, not for who "gets" it first...and no one will get it if it was not a novell idea/development.
Best