Anker's 3D texture printer raises $45 million in most successful Kickstarter campaign ever — world's first UV printer for personal use to begin shipping in August

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• waxaviercarr@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not trying to be dismissive but what’s the use case for this? Seems limited but I’ve never heard of a texture printer before.

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  • peregrin5@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Use it to print cheap plastic knick knacks with generic farmhouse graphics generated by AI to sell to your unsuspecting followers. No joke there was a YouTuber who made a video about doing exactly this.

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  • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    UV printers are used for direct to object printing, you likely own some stuff that has gone through the process. It’s especially popular for customized promotional items that would be otherwise difficult to print on, like flash drives, gold balls, etc. Admittedly, I also don’t see much of a reason to buy this for my own use, but one could say the same about other hobbies like 3d printing.

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    • DrSoap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So I have a small business where we print our down designs. We almost got one of these, but canceled. I can’t justify the price for what I can use it for. We were going to get it to print onto containers but printing onto vinyl and using a cutting machine would be cheaper than the UV ink and wouldn’t make a noticeable difference for our use. Also printing on to things one at a time is just going to be so slow. I hand paint onto the 3D prints using acrylics and then use a thin layer of UV resin to all an enamel like finish. Its pretty quick to line up a bunch of prints and hand stroke the colors on one at a time with a brush. Its also cheaper because that ink is still a whopping $300 a refill i think. For personal use, it might be warranted. It seems so cool and I really want one, but even with it being so affordable for what it is, I can’t justify the price.

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    • waxaviercarr@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Cool. Thanks!

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• RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not to be dismissive but why the fuck does a company as big as anker need a kickstarter?

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  • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    marketing, basically an ad, and also helps them gage if there’s public interest

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• philpo@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What a nice ad title.

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• ClydapusGotwald@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t trust eufy with anything since they leaked people’s webcams and then said there wasn’t an issue for a long time. Cool tech but I’d never buy eufy product that connects to web.

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• sylver_dragon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Mmm, feel that nice astroturf.

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• Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Anker

  rubs eyes

  A N K E R

  Wow, I did read that right.

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So…a plasti-dip machine? What’s the use case here? did they just pull an Ouya?

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• lolrightythen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They finally dethroned Branderson?!?

  Pretty wild that he held the record up to this point.

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