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Ineal
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From research team, fast Color Printing with MK4

link to video: >> fastcolorprinting  <<

looks very fast color change inline without stopping

 

Best Answer by Tim Weston:

Look at the video carefully!

What you are seeing is an already printed object with two colours being overprinted with a black layer. The video is reversed to give the impression that the colour layers are being printed.

You can even see the outline of the coloured shapes beneath the rest of the black layer.

Cheers,

Tim

Posted : 27/08/2023 7:38 am
Claude BORDEAUX
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RE: From research team, fast Color Printing with MK4

AH, AH: Good joke!!

I think you are overlaying the colored layer with the black and playing the video backwards !!!

Posted : 27/08/2023 8:58 am
James Kirk
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RE: From research team, fast Color Printing with MK4

Looks like a fake. 
Probably the filament is some kind of multicolor filament which has been prepared especially to get this effect. 

Posted : 27/08/2023 9:50 am
Tim Weston
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RE: From research team, fast Color Printing with MK4

Look at the video carefully!

What you are seeing is an already printed object with two colours being overprinted with a black layer. The video is reversed to give the impression that the colour layers are being printed.

You can even see the outline of the coloured shapes beneath the rest of the black layer.

Cheers,

Tim

Posted : 27/08/2023 10:48 am
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Ineal
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Topic starter answered:
RE: From research team, fast Color Printing with MK4

Eagle eyes, but first the effect looks good?

Posted : 27/08/2023 11:37 am
Tim Weston
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RE: From research team, fast Color Printing with MK4

I think more a case of ‘if it looks too good to be true then it probably is too good to be true’.

Cheers,

Tim

Posted : 27/08/2023 11:51 am
iftibashir
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RE: From research team, fast Color Printing with MK4

Imagine of 3D printers could print colours like that, and at that speed - the printer loads the filament at the right time so its in the tube and approaching the nozzle at the exact time for swap over - how awesome would that be!

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Posted : 27/08/2023 2:51 pm
darksharpie
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RE: From research team, fast Color Printing with MK4

To actually do this is similar how the Mosaic Palette works, no?  Creating a strand of filament with the color changes in-line?

Posted : 30/08/2023 12:27 am
Tim Weston
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RE: From research team, fast Color Printing with MK4
Posted by: @darksharpie

To actually do this is similar how the Mosaic Palette works, no?  Creating a strand of filament with the color changes in-line?

Yes and no. The Mosaic Palette splices multiple filaments as required (up to 8 with the Palette 3 Pro) so you get a continuous multi-colour single filament feed. However even the Palette requires a 'transition' tower to purge filament at the colour transition points. Without that, the colour transitions will be less well defined.

Cheers,

Tim

Posted : 30/08/2023 8:10 am
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