jaztermareal
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Saw this vid. This printer prints much like the one at my old college (though that one couldn't print full colour it could print mixed materials, so hard resin, semi flexible resin and soft rubbery resin all on one model).
The support material was like jelly and was cleaned with water. This new printer in the video above prints faster and in colour but obviously at like 85k the cost of the printer is too high for hobbyists, though in a decade we could see cheap (under 5k, maybe as low as a few hundred dolloars) simpler colour resin printers hit the market. Just need the demand to be there.
While colour printers have been around a long time they were usually powder bed SLS printers, so the parts were always rough and often brittle. To have full colour resin prints means fully smooth surfaces and basically photograph like paint detail. Imagine printing a full colour 3D scan of your head in resin! It would look like a high end HT sculpt.
Just imagine.... downloading a fully painted set of clone armour (or even a fully painted figure) from the internet then printing it out at home in a matter of hours. Then, once the jelly like support material is disolved in hot water, the full coloured armour was ready to pop on to a figure, no sanding of supports, no priming and painting. The future of figures could be DLC. Buy Fortnite 5 and download then print full colour figures of your custom skin.
Let's just hope the cost drops faster than it did for previous FDM and resin printer tech. Those took 1-2 decades to become cheap and accessible.
