Until the death of humanity or the point at which we get molecular 3D printers.
You need a high enough intensity light at 300 LEDs per inch to knock some electrons around on a sheet of perfect plastic. Then you need a perfect source of toner, the moving the paper bit and the melting bit are the only parts we can do adequately.
To make it outside of a fabrication facility simply isn’t reasonable. It’s too small.
Its the same reason we’re not going to be making our own desktop monitors.
The only reason they’re able to pull this inkjet off is because the head is coming from a fab, we don’t have that kind of precision at home to make a inkjet head.
Laser printers exist today. We can’t make FOSS ones because of patent encumbered technology. Some day that will not be the case.
The printer from the parent particle has “off-the-shelf print heads and ink cartridges”. Why would a laser printer equivalent need molecular level printing instead of using off the shelf components that exist today?
How do you plan to fab the print element there? What part are you going to source? Just give me the smallest bit of a plan for this and I’ll give you a pass. Because I honestly think you have no idea what you are getting yourself into.
Until the death of humanity or the point at which we get molecular 3D printers.
You need a high enough intensity light at 300 LEDs per inch to knock some electrons around on a sheet of perfect plastic. Then you need a perfect source of toner, the moving the paper bit and the melting bit are the only parts we can do adequately.
To make it outside of a fabrication facility simply isn’t reasonable. It’s too small.
Its the same reason we’re not going to be making our own desktop monitors.
The only reason they’re able to pull this inkjet off is because the head is coming from a fab, we don’t have that kind of precision at home to make a inkjet head.
Laser printers exist today. We can’t make FOSS ones because of patent encumbered technology. Some day that will not be the case.
The printer from the parent particle has “off-the-shelf print heads and ink cartridges”. Why would a laser printer equivalent need molecular level printing instead of using off the shelf components that exist today?
How do you plan to fab the print element there? What part are you going to source? Just give me the smallest bit of a plan for this and I’ll give you a pass. Because I honestly think you have no idea what you are getting yourself into.