Powder Based 3d Printer

[scorch]

Amazing, scorch! You must be a pretty accomplished maker. What do you think the cost would be to replicate this? Or would I be better off going with a filament-based design?

The printer I posted was mostly a test bed for testing different powder and binder(liquid) combinations. I threw the mechanics together with a little scrap wood and an old HP inkjet printer. So the cost of the mechanics is whatever it costs in terms of time and money to find an inkjet printer that works.

The powder material was about $20 but I would probably look at more recent peoples work to see what people have come up with since I worked on this item. A good starting place would be the Plan B Printer website (Building a Plan B | Ytec 3D). Although they seem to have recently stopped development.

For making anything that is functional I would definitely steer you toward the filament plastic extrusion type machines. DIY powder based printers might be better suited for display only items. Although the professional powder based machines claim to produce very strong items (Professional 3D Printers | 3D Systems).