A collaboration between housing non-profit New Story and construction technology firm Icon aims to use 3D printing technology to house the homeless. While it’s early days yet, they hope to produce low-cost 3D-printed homes in El Salvador by late 2019. New Story and Icon debuted an initial proof-of-concept model of a house that measures just… Continue reading 3D Printing Project To Revolutionize Low-Cost Construction [+VIDEO]
Pixma TS5120 is an entry level printer that provides a basic set of features at a bargain price. It’s a compact and light all-in-one printer, measuring 5.8 by 16.8 by 12.5 inches (HWD) and weighing 14.3 pounds. It has a simple, attractive design, with rounded corners.
Japanese company Mimaki mostly known as a manufacturer of wide-format inkjet, has introduced a campaign of its 3DUJ-553 colour 3D printer. The machine has the ability to produce more than 10 million colours, including clear ink for translucent parts, in layers as fine as 20 microns.
Years after it was revealed that HP’s printer ink was more expensive than actual human blood, printing photos at home on an inkjet is still a ripoff. You’re better off having them printed professionally at a photo center, or, by recycling a bunch of old electronics into a home-made printer that uses a tapping pencil… Continue reading Printer That Draws Images Can Save You Millions on Ink [VIDEO]
Adding to the line-up of dental-focussed 3D printing technologies launched at LMT Lab Day Chicago 2018 from the likes of 3D Systems and DWS, Stratasys unveiled a new machine, material and support removal technology aimed at boosting adoption of professional-grade 3D printing in dental laboratories. Leveraging its PolyJet triple-jetting technology, the new Stratasys Objet260 Dental… Continue reading Dental 3D Printer From Stratasys
Engineers at Xerox have made a bold claim for their skills at unclogging printer jams: their expertise was responsible for a drop in Chicago’s crime rate during the mid-Nineties. The story of how they unclogged a city’s broken criminal justice system is told in the latest edition of The New Yorker, and a spokesman for… Continue reading Fixing Printer Jams Lowers Chicago Crime Rate, Xerox Engineers Say
Xiaomi’s latest crowdfunded product has been announced and our guess was right. The XPRINT Pocket AR Photo Printer is its 153rd crowdfunded item and it does more than just print pictures. Lately we have seen manufacturers release pocket printers as a way to bring back the instant cameras that reigned decades ago since most people… Continue reading Xiaomi XPRINT Printer with Augmented Reality
Three-dimensional images that we can see from all directions are the next step up from holograms. To move us toward that goal, researchers from Brigham Young University have developed a new method to create such a 3D display. The approach is called a free-space volumetric display and uses a technique called optical trapping. As reported… Continue reading Images 3D Printed With Light [VIDEO]
We all got used to the idea that when you buy a printer you actually putting yourself into rat race of endless cartridge replacement. You can get a printer almost at no cost upfront, but pay pretty money for the ink later on. The Japaniese printer manufacturer, Epson, some time ago started to change the… Continue reading New Type of Printers: No Refill for Two Years [VIDEO]
Casio’s new Mofrel system does something truly innovative: it can add 3D textures to your printouts, turning flat paper into faux leather, stone, wood, and even simulate embossed stitched fabrics. The paper you feed into the Mofrel isn’t the same stuff used in the Xerox copier at your work. Each sheet costs around $10, and… Continue reading Casio Printer Turns Paper Into Faux Leather or Wood