{"id":199469,"date":"2024-11-14T14:25:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T20:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/layered-paper-3d-printers-full-color-durable-objects-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost"},"modified":"2024-11-14T14:25:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T20:25:04","slug":"layered-paper-3d-printers-full-color-durable-objects-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/layered-paper-3d-printers-full-color-durable-objects-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost","title":{"rendered":"Layered paper 3D printers: Full color, durable objects at a fraction of the cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/layered-paper-3d-printers-full-color-durable-objects-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I believe that nanotechnology could be imbedded into paper so a paper computer could give one the same information as a smartphone but at pennies per smartphone. Right now we can print out 3D copies of paper phones and other things next would be nanotechnology made of paper with quantum mechanical engineering.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Irish company Mcor\u2019s unique paper-based 3D printers make some very compelling arguments. For starters, instead of expensive plastics, they build objects out of cut-and-glued sheets of standard 80 GSM office paper. That means printed objects come out at between 10\u201320 percent of the price of other 3D prints, and with none of the toxic fumes or solvent dips that some other processes require.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, because it\u2019s standard paper, you can print onto it in full color before it\u2019s cut and assembled, giving you a high quality, high resolution color \u201cskin\u201d all over your final object. Additionally, if the standard hard-glued object texture isn\u2019t good enough, you can dip the final print in solid glue, to make it extra durable and strong enough to be drilled and tapped, or in a flexible outer coating that enables moving parts \u2014 if you don\u2019t mind losing a little of your object\u2019s precision shape.<\/p>\n<p>The process is fairly simple. Using a piece of software called SliceIt, a 3D model is cut into paper-thin layers exactly the thickness of an 80 GSM sheet. If your 3D model doesn\u2019t include color information, you can add color and detail to the model through a second piece of software called ColorIt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that nanotechnology could be imbedded into paper so a paper computer could give one the same information as a smartphone but at pennies per smartphone. Right now we can print out 3D copies of paper phones and other things next would be nanotechnology made of paper with quantum mechanical engineering. Irish company Mcor\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,1512,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}