Full colour 3D printers?

hi, zprint uses obj or vrml and texture for color print. is not very easy for filament printer to obtain a good color because:
1) there are not 3 head printer (rgb) or 4 head (cmyk)
2) you need to mix the color of three color filament and then extrude
3) the dimension of the minimal part of the filament is very big, so you cant have good resolution in color.

replicatorbot 2 has 2 colors head but it's far from the solution.

have a nice day

If you have deep pockets...

see above about deep pockets...

The Zcorp machine I worked with ran our office about 40,000 new when we got it.

any of these...

Stl, Vrml, Ply, 3dS, FBX, ZPr

not for a z corp, you need to use VRML or ZPR

...at least thats what we had to use when I printed with the z printer. there might be something else out there now

article with video...

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20121129- … sy-3d.html

They say it's pretty strong, very similar to wood.  If you pick up a pack of printer paper and imagine it all glued together, that makes a pretty solid block of material.  It's like printing 100% infill all the time.   It won't be waterproof, but you could fix that with some kind of coating.

If I won the lottery, something like this would be what I would get:

http://objet.com/3d-printers/connex/objet1000

Large size, multiple colour AND material all in the one machine. Does silicone and rubber parts in the same part as well as hard ABS like plastic.

So the machine prints a sheet of paper with whatever colour is required, cuts it out to the correct shape, and pastes it to the previous layer, and repeats? I wonder if it uses support material or how it deals with overhangs?

THAT is very cool.

I guess this would be more suited for models not meant to be functional or used in any way, just as visual representations.

It lays the paper down, makes the cuts, sprays glue onto it in a tight pattern where the object is, and in a loose pattern outside the object.  Then it lays the next page down and makes the cuts for that layer, etc.  Overhangs aren't a problem because they are supported by the sheets underneath which I assume get no glue at that position.

I didn't realize that they had their own special paper developed, but that makes sense.  They originally said that they used ordinary office paper, but they could need something that cuts clean and doesn't leave loose fibers on the edges.

Well I suppose it depends entirely on whether or not they recycle the scraps. Those demo videos show the equivalent of an A4 ream of paper for something a couple of inches wide.

Maybe we spoke too soon

http://reprappro.com/Tricolour_Mendel