Z Corporation's ZPrinter 350 will create a 3D object of any color you want, so long as it is white
By Tim Stevens 
posted October 16th 2009 7:42AM
posted October 16th 2009 7:42AM
posted October 16th 2009 7:42AM
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These have been around a long time, the college I went to have one.
Is "college" plural now?
Michael Jackson used to be regenerated each night in one of these, occasionally tweaking the nose and chin options.
Yes college is plural, excepting colleges with only one person in them.
Materialise, one of the biggest company in the sector, is soon launching an online site so that basically anyone can print out what wants: http://i.materialise.com/
@FoGia: How about shapeways? (www.shapeways.com). They are already in business now, letting consumers print their 3d models, shipping the prints worldwide within 10 days. They use several kinds of printing techniques and materials and even offer stainless steel printing.
Kind regards, Arno
"Coporations"?
And that thing looks like a Bod Pod....
its tiny!! and im not being sarcastic, it really is small compared to normal office printers/copiers which are huge
Picture 5 is a 12A rotor housing from a Mazda RX-7.
and it's responses like that which make the comment section the best part of engadget
http://www.racingbeat.com/resultset.asp?partnumber=11021
Damn, nice find. I've got an 84 RX-7 GSL sitting in my driveway and I still wouldn't have spotted that.
Truly impressive spot, sir... (unless you work for Mazda or are a mechanic who works on Mazda rotaries)
Funny, that was the first thing that caught my eye. I have only driven a first and second gen naturally aspirated. Fun cars. Wankel engines, good times.
albeit a very roughly rendered one..with seemingly no ports...
I was just about to ask why it ran on a rotary engine, but I thought it was the 13B model.
You can see "12A" stamped on the housing right above "Mazda". I'm just a rotard who has rebuilt his engine too many times :D
We've got one of these where I work. They do print in colour using standard HP cartridges.
However there are a few downsides:
1) It prints 10 layers per mm, and takes between 30sec-2min a layer, e.g. you start a job before you go home and it'll be done next morning.
2) After printing it's fragile, brittle and inside a cube of powder, so you have dig/brush/suck the excess away to get it out.
3) Infiltration. Once you've dug it out and spent time cleaning away all the excess powder you have to make it tougher. How depends on the powder used. If you've got one you just dunk it in water the put it out to dry. If you've got the other you have to pour/dribble/spray it in superglue, remove the excess and leave to dry.
It's cool, but not cheap to run.
Sounds like you guys have the 450... At the college where I work we got information on a new powder and conversion for several of the systems, including the 450, which uses water as the primary binder and sealer, I would send you a link to it but if you've ever been to Z-Corp's site you know its mostly an ad to get you to buy the printer, its not there to actually promote stuff to current owners.
I found out its zp150 but I guess I misread (or misremembered) the information... it cures with water+epsom salt, its not as strong or vibrant of colors but it gives much whiter models, it is still compatible with the older cure materials though.
http://zcorp.fileburst.com/downloads/zp150%20FAQ%206-4-09.pdf
I don't know if you're specifically talking about the color printer or not, but models from our 406 (which is admittedly kind of ancient) get dipped in melted wax. It seals them up nicely and makes them a little tougher. Another place I worked that had one used some kind of epoxy to make them super hard. There also used to be some kind of material that would make the models flexible. We used to have a ball that was made this way and was very flexible. Would make for a much better dildo I would think.
I'm going to take two letters out of that code and send them back your way.
Can you guess which two?
I hear Ford are working on a 3D printer that can print in any colour you want. As long as the colour is black.
Yes that was the joke. Well done.
:-)
exactly what I thoutgh lol!!!
Strangely, even their printed transmissions are underpowered.
ZPrinter! I get it! Z-Axis... 3D... Printer... Awesome name.
The TPrinter model will output in 4D.
Steve! What are you doing reading about 3d printers?
Microsoft is making 3d Printers now?
Zune HD with 3d printer built in!
Here is a much better option. Now we can have a desk top version
http://www.mcortechnologies.com/
This is ripe for office pranks. Just wait till someone goes to collect their 3D printout and finds an enormous, anatomically correct dildo instead. Nasty!
Think of the possibilities for the office slut at the Christmas party.
Replicas of tata's or hoohah's ?
Nice
"For those times when a photocopy of your butt just won't do!"
can it build its own parts, like this one?
http://reprap.org
Im start thinking in McFarlane toys.
We had one of these at school, very handy for Product Developers !
PC Load Letter?
Kudos to you, sir! It took longer than I thought. Hell, I'm sure the author expected it first post!
Now they just need to outfit it to finish with a nice coat of AMOLED display!
"PC Load Letter"? What the **** does that mean?
This thing gives a similarly confusing error about loobing the print head track... and then you spend an hour trying to figure out how to do it before pulling out the manual and checking how it says to do it, which doesn't help much other than show you where the damb thing loobs at. But at 425lbs and 4'x2.75'x4.6', yes the thing is mostly air inside, you can't just take this thing out and smash it with a baseball bat.
LOL PC LOAD LETTER/LEGAL thank god they changed it to "Tray 1/2/3/etc. Empty - Load Letter/Legal/11x17/etc."
$26k for the office dork to make dildos all day....
DO WANT!, as the LOLcats say... when I make it big, I'm totally buying one of these things... so many uses I can think of for this.
This thing is a piece of garbage!!! We were actually fooled into purchasing one for rapid prototyping where I work. It does not work as advertised, not even close.
Then the people who are using it don't know what they are doing, because they do work perfectly find for rapid prototyping... you can get printers that are more accurate but they take longer, cost more, waste more, and are more hazardous, and they still can't create a fully working prototype.
I had to install drivers for one of these for my tech job on campus. Our architecture department uses these type of machines along with tons of other goodies frequently. I prefer the 3d scanners.
There are Service Bureau for 3D printing, you don't have to buy the machine, just create a 3D STL file and send it off.
check out www.key3d.com for online quotes.
That printer is racist.
I so want to see that office area after about a month of printing & cleaning parts :D
That dust gets everywhere.