I’m curious what your thoughts are with the MCOR Iris 3D Color printer that uses paper? We didn’t have much luck with it at WhiteClouds unfortunately.
Staples is offering it, but their website doesn’t have anything about print volumes. When I looked up the print volume was very small, much too small for anything practical.
Of course this is paper, so “practical” is a relative term.
Honestly we had trouble with it from the moment we plugged it in. Again an amazing concept and low build costs compared to other full color options like the z printer, but still a little too early imo.
I think that it is an incredibly wasteful print method, but it should “work”. if the print bed is not filled, all unoccupied area is simply wasted print material.
Granted i do not have a better solution so i really shouldn’t judge too hard.
@Camerin_hahn , it might not be so bad if the printers were run at fuller utilization using a nester (like http://www.netfabb.com/news.php?nid=29). I would expect service bureaus to do that, so the waste won’t be quite as bad.
I think it is perfectly fine for print groups, but i personally would never own one. I want to be able to iterate quickly which means a mostly empty bed… Just my opinion.
Yeah seems kinda silly for the $$. The prints can’t be very durable at all. It probably makes a bit more since for Staples since they likely have a paper recycling infrastructure already.
@scott_maher I think for architects it would be wonderful
Cheaper to run than a Z printer, better colour reproduction than a z printer, parts are stronger than a z printer, but build volume is small.
This seems to be far more friendly an office, school, or home environment compared to Zcorp style, too. The Zcorp system spews so much dust everywhere.