[Teaching Tech] acquired an attention-grabbing e-mail from [Johan] exhibiting footage of 3D prints with a dye-sublimated colour picture on the floor. Usually, we consider dye sublimation, we consider urgent colour footage onto cloth, particularly T-shirts. However [Johan] makes use of a modified Epson inkjet printer and has superb outcomes, as you possibly can see within the video under.
The printers use separate tanks for ink, which appears to be the important thing. If you have already got an Espon “tank” printer, you might be midway there, however if you happen to don’t have one, an affordable one will set you again lower than $200 and possibly even much less if you happen to decide one up used.
You need to fill bottles with particular dye, after all. You can too use the printer to make issues like T-shirts. The thought is to print a dye switch web page and place it on the mattress earlier than you begin printing. The sublimation dye is activated with warmth, and, after all, you might be taking pictures out scorching plastic, so the picture will switch to the plastic.
[Teaching Tech] explains the perfect settings to make all of it work. The outcomes look nice and we’re to do this ourselves. Transferring mattress pictures is previous hat, however that is one thing else. Beats liar’s colour printing.