Strangeprintingdevices

CC House printer

2010-12-22T01:01:00.000+01:00

Lays the future of house construction in the hands of Contour Crafting technology? Simply said it is a huge 3D printer, capable of constructing multiple (unique) buildings at once.

Read more about this technology on the contourcrafting website. (Have a look at the 'How does it work' and 'Applications' sections)

Space cowboys are already dreaming of using this technique to build houses on the moon or other places in the universe ...

Tiger Stone Street Printer

2010-12-22T00:42:00.000+01:00

Tiger Stone Street Printer allows you to 'print' streets swath per swath. 300m2 per day!

See Tiger Stone website for all the details. See Multimedia, Filmpjes for move movies of this incredible machine. (Dutch)

More in depth English review of the machine.

Is that the future of street construction?

Open Source 3D Printers

2010-05-31T00:27:00.000+02:00

On the Maker Faire in California there were some Open Source 3D Printers.
You can buy (<1000€) and build them yourself.(8 hours)See the video for some action.

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version

2010-05-17T22:40:00.000+02:00

Watch this magnificent video from these guys. The 'printer moment' is at the very end ...

More video's from these guys here.

PrintBrush™ - digital camera/ink jet printer (pocket size)

2010-04-16T01:21:00.001+02:00

A pocket size digital camera with an ink jet printer build in.
After snapping a photo, move the device over paper and the photo gets printed.

Here a demo of the PrintBrush printing a letter-size e-mail.

Here a video of the technology behind the printer.

Food Printers

2010-04-13T23:53:00.002+02:00

These days you can decorate your cakes with highly personalized images. Printing on food with edible ink seems to become more and more popular. Below a demonstration of printing on cockies.

There exist even printers optimized for printing on lolly's and chocolate. For more strange food printers => go to youtube.

CPU vs. GPU

2010-04-10T23:23:00.002+02:00

Nvidia hired the Mythbusters team to show the differences between a CPU and a GPU.

Water Printer (using waves)

2010-04-10T01:34:00.001+02:00

This device uses waves to draw text and pictures on the surface of water.
Read more.

Facadeprinter

2010-04-04T00:31:00.004+02:00

The hart of this printer is a paintball gun. It is capable of producing artworks from a distance, even on difficult reachable surfaces.

I really like their UN water point logo.

Read here for more detailed specifications.

Check out these guys homepage to see the printer in action.

Thanks guys for the tip and the photos!

Underfill Tablecloth

2010-04-04T00:05:00.000+02:00

When spilling red wine on your tablecloth, a hidden pattern of butterflies comes to live. Makes you want to spill, right? It seems that this is still a concept idea. Read more.

Waterfall Printer

2010-04-03T23:53:00.000+02:00

The ink of this printer is falling water.
See it working in the video below.

Here another and another waterfall printer in action.

Skin Keyboard Printer - Skinput

2010-03-09T00:00:00.000+01:00

Skinput is a research project between Chris Harrison of Carnegie Mellon University and Dan Morris and Desney Tan, both of Microsoft Research.

It is basically an armband with a projector and an acoustic sensor. It can display some text(menu's) on for example the palm of your hand and it can detect key presses on these displayed virtual key's.

Read more on news.discovery.com.

Light Brush Painter

2010-03-08T23:45:00.000+01:00

This concept design comes from designer Seo Dong-Hun. A handheld light brush draws on a clusters of LEDs hanging on the ceiling. This way it gives you the opportunity to create some art masterpiece.

Read full article on yankodesign.com.

Toast Printer

2010-03-02T21:56:00.001+01:00

This printer prints (or burns) on toasts.
More prints of this machine.

It seems that toast printers do inspire people to make strange printers.
Here a concept device that puts a smile on your toast.

Designer: Xu Yan Xiang

Read full article on this concept machine.

Printing With Ballpen

2010-03-02T21:44:00.000+01:00

Another concept printer, instead of a pencil, this one uses CMYK ballpens. Designers: Hyo Sun Ahn & Min Koung So

Read all about on the designers website.

Flyfire 3D helicopter LED screen(printer)

2010-02-24T22:41:00.001+01:00

Flyfire exists as a hovering, programmable swarm of mini-helicopter-mounted LEDs. (Developed by MIT's SENSEable City Lab.)

Read more here.

Printing With A Pencil Stub

2010-02-23T00:43:00.002+01:00

The concept is cool, just put a pencil inside and use it as ink.

Designed by : Hoyoung Lee
Read full article.

More detailed information.

Invetech 3D bio-printer

2010-01-03T01:31:00.004+01:00

Printing 3D structures of cells was announced in 2007. Now Invetech has the 3D printer ready for production.
Will this machine make creating "implantable human organs on demand" possible?

Invetech press release.

Larry Page's inkjet printer

2009-12-08T22:59:00.002+01:00

I red that Larry Page once made a large format inkjet printer.(While at the University of Michigan)
Anybody seen this device? Are there pictures or even a movie somewhere on the net? Having a link here to that device would be nice.

Animated prints

2009-12-02T00:02:00.003+01:00

A new technology/company claims to be able to print animated prints even on thin flexible surfaces by using electroluminescent ink. Connecting the ink with a driver and changing light parameters makes the print become animated.Continue here to read the full story.

Sony BRAVIA Paint Commercial

2009-11-26T23:55:00.004+01:00

This is a Sony TV commercial, it is a combination of fireworks and paint => you can call it a building printer/decorator. It was recorded in Glasgow, Scotland in July 2006.

"Colour like no other" has a neat photo collection of this event.

Here you can see the making off.

HP Handheld SP400 All-In-One scanner printer

2009-11-21T04:02:00.001+01:00

Hp invented again a wonderfull device. Scanning en printing combined in a handheld device.
It seems it exists in two versions, one with the battery underneed, and one with the battery attached to the arm.

This device will most likely be used in box shifting workflows or in mailing applications, but it seems it can also print on not so evident surfaces, with even water resistant ink.

For the engineers among you, here a glimpse on the inside.

More detailes and specifications -> see HP full information page.

Underneath a demo video of this amazing thing.

HANDJET® EBS 250 portable printer

2009-11-19T23:10:00.004+01:00

This is a portable single color hand printer (data send wireless). If you believe half of what the video claims, it is still impressive! What printhead did they use? Trident? Multiple color version available (in development?)? Does it exist with another color than black? Did you see the external encoder in the video?

See movie below for demonstration or go to their youtube video channel for more details.
If you want to buy one, you can try here. (onsite demo's available!)
Anybody an idea of the cost?

Parallax Inkjet robot

2009-11-18T23:32:00.002+01:00

These guy's ripped a print engine (printhead + controller) out of a desktop printer and mounted on a simple (parallax controlled) robot. In the video below the robot spits two ink blops on two different walls.

PrintBall paint ball printer

2009-11-18T23:19:00.007+01:00

Some students mounted a paintball gun onto a 2D X,Y system and are able to generate some basic images. In the movie below you can see one of their first test shots.

Automatic graffiti printer/robot

2009-11-18T23:08:00.003+01:00

Nicely built computer controller airbrush. See movie below to see the robot/printer in action.

Huge 4 color plotter

2009-11-18T01:07:00.005+01:00

This is a huge X,Y plotter controlled by a mobile phone.

Download a movie of the thing in action.

Read the full story at digitalexperience.dk

CD tattoo printer

2009-11-18T00:55:00.005+01:00

Yamaha's DiscT@2 technology allows the user to burn custom text and graphics onto the data side of a CD-R disc.

Here you can see the technologie in action. [Demo with your own text.]

More about this technology.

D-Shape - printing buildings in the future?

2009-10-30T23:04:00.001+01:00

D-Shape is an enormous printer. It looks like a huge 3D printer. It is capable to print almost any shape within a cube 6x6 meters side. It uses sand and a binder to transform it into a solid strong material.

Details of this printer and how it works, is well explained on the D-Shape website.

Only your imagination will limit the shapes you can be build with it. Here some idea's what you can build with it.

Anybody seen this printing?

IdeaPaint - transform a whole room into one big whiteboard.

2009-10-30T22:37:00.004+01:00

It is not really a 'strange' printing device, but it is definitely interesting.You are the printer, the wall is the media you print on. It is a paint that transforms your walls into one big whiteboard. You can write idea's, brainstorm, make notes all over the place. I think this is a very cool thing.

In the movie below you can see how to put it on your walls and what you can do with it.

IdeaPaint

It even exist in different colors.

2009-10-25T23:59:00.002+01:00

Epson Stylus Pro WT7900

First time I hear that white ink is coming to desktop size printers (Target release early 2010). Normally it is a feature you see on large format printers. White ink tends to settle out, so constantly stirring in one our other way is necessary. I wonder how they did it in this printer. Any body knows?

Read full artile on printweek.com

Espon 7900 printer series.

Magic beans

2009-10-22T00:04:00.004+02:00

A friend of mine bought some magic bean for his suns birthday.

These beans are laser engraved through the seed coating with a personalized word. When grown, your word is displayed on the outside of the bean. See picture below.

In case you're interessed, you can
buy these beans here or here ;-)

It is even patented US 7024817.

Strange ...

Baseball bat inkjet printers

2009-08-31T22:17:00.002+02:00

Found two movies of baseball bat printers.

Printed with Spectra (Dimatix) heads.

Printed on a modified HP designjet 1050C

Patent details.
Patent with bat feeder.

I wonder if these prototypes really got into production?
Anybody seen them?