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    CrafteHbot Full Color 3D Printer DIY Kit

    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/

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    Thinking outside the box. I like.


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    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.

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    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.

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