Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I remember having an HP laser printer for B&W and thinking its was the cats whiskers of technology.
Yes, I did switch to Canon color with something like 9 pigment inks, set to last a hundred years!
But this Wednesday I was really amazed by HP’s leverage of all their color technology, with giant printheads, to print in color on black heat absorbing spheres coated with reflective white that exactly melt to fuse according to the IR heat pattern created in the surface of a bed of powder.
The results are permanent colored plastics. Hospitals are using the printers to plan surgeries for children with heart defects or tumors.
Or it’s used for industry with different aspects of a complex part being coded in color for easier assembly!
Asher Kelman: Saratek and HP Sharing Prints!
Asher Kelman: Working Part for a Machine
But what I like most was their build of fine textures crafted in 3D software like Rhino and simply printed out at a touch of a button!
Or else, creation of colored hanging fabrics with interlocking loose parts of different colors or materials that can be electroplated in the metal of your choice!
Asher
Yes, I did switch to Canon color with something like 9 pigment inks, set to last a hundred years!
But this Wednesday I was really amazed by HP’s leverage of all their color technology, with giant printheads, to print in color on black heat absorbing spheres coated with reflective white that exactly melt to fuse according to the IR heat pattern created in the surface of a bed of powder.
The results are permanent colored plastics. Hospitals are using the printers to plan surgeries for children with heart defects or tumors.
Or it’s used for industry with different aspects of a complex part being coded in color for easier assembly!
Asher Kelman: Saratek and HP Sharing Prints!
Asher Kelman: Working Part for a Machine
But what I like most was their build of fine textures crafted in 3D software like Rhino and simply printed out at a touch of a button!
Or else, creation of colored hanging fabrics with interlocking loose parts of different colors or materials that can be electroplated in the metal of your choice!
Asher