Too bad it is just a crowdfund, but it is promising!!!
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Ohhhhh
hmm… be interesting to see what their plan is for the ink…
To be honest, we started using these newer Epson eco-tank printers, and my absolute hate for household printers has gone away…
no more cartridges. Just buy bottles of ink and pour it in. So far we have gotten print volume more in line with a laserjet with toner. The ink has lasted a very long time.
So it shifted the model from basically free printers, then we get the money from you on the ink, to just buy a decent device and pay up-front, then less hassle on the ink side.
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That’s fun. I wonder what it will cost.
Mine came with “first year of printing for free”. If it ran out of ink, they would send me more. I didn’t run out of ink.
The only annoying thing with these if you don’t print for a bit, the heads get super clogged and it takes a while of running the cleaning cycle / test prints to get it working again
We’ve gone a couple months without printing before without issue… usually when the kids are off school for the summer. I think we’ve had the printer for probably 2-3 years and haven’t replaced the color ones yet
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We have 2 of them (one with sublimation ink) and they are awesome! I think this is one place where our higher humidity helps out. @CarmenJ keeps the regular printer pretty busy but the Sublimation one goes months in between uses sometimes and never has a clog issue
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60% humidity in my house most of the time lol…
guessing that helps a little
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it is fun to think about a basic printer being a simple lowrider with a rotary under it and an ink nozzle at the core. Could be fun to build one just to check the box.
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I was just thinking if this team could get there hands on this, imagine that wall that someone made being an inkjet!!!
or us putting an inkjet on instead of the router!
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Could i make we make our own poster printers or tshirt printers with a full sheet lowrider or could we print on carvings?
Depends. Right now nothing is released. But it is listed as open! We will need to see what thwy mean by that!!
I have the impression that the precision of a $200 inkjet printer surpasses anything I can make for less than $10k. Just because it is so focused and mass produced. I wonder which dimensions really matter. It seems like holding the paper is going to be a similar problem to an extruder.
It’s also funny to me that 3D printers could be used to make a 2D printer. It is coming full circle.
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Epson makes jet nozzles as well. I requested information from them just to see what it would cost. The epson jets are used for dye sublimation and a couple other craft applications.
Random thought… Instead of 3d printing multiple filaments, what if you put an ink jet on the core and “paint” the layers you want to be different colors?
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Someone was using sharpy’s to color filament at some point. I think they did it before the hot end. It didn’t look very good.
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Ours died before the first tank of ink was used up. 
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Interesting… Inkjet the filament before the extruder. I was envisioning extruding then painting the produced shape layer by layer. The challenge of that would be overspray and dry time.
If you could get the filament to absorb the dye or pigment or whatever the colorant is then that could get locked in at the hot end and have continuous color or continuously variable color. Those color mixers were a fun idea for a while, but the color change through the extruder isnt immediate and has a gradual transition of almost the right color. Fun to think about.