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

[Admin]

Anker is behind the eufyMake E1 3D texture printer campaign on Kickstarter which has raised over $45 million—the most of any Kickstarter campaign ever.

Anker's 3D texture printer raises $45 million in most successful Kickstarter campaign ever — world's first UV printer for personal use to begin shi... : Read more

 

[edzieba]

It's far from a new technology, layered buildup technique has been used in printshops for years. But it's also two orders of magnitude cheaper than you would previously have been able to print for. It's not really a home use device, but if you regularly have to farm out to a print shop for one-offs or short runs or proofs, this could easily pay for itself in very short order, let alone the time savings of bringing it in house.
That said, a cut down version (skip the roll-film option, print on flat substrates only so no 3D scanner, etc) has no inherent barriers for lowering the price significantly, possibly to the point it is competitive with 'high end' inkjet photo printers. And since the 'ink' is UV-cured, no danger of it drying out!

 

[Personwomanmancameratv]

After the failure of ankermake (record breaking kickstarter) M5, V6color changer, and m5c and the abandonment of the 3d printer line I would never trust anker(Eufymake) anytime soon.