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  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.worldtattoo printer
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    There are some, but there are several reasons that you haven’t seen them about.

    1. The people who spend the most on tattoos are doing so because they are art made by an artist. I’m not sure if you know many people in the scene, but these aren’t the people getting flash tattoos at a random shop. They plan their tattoos, they pick their artists, and they spend many hours trusting another human to permanently alter their body.
    2. The most common type of printers in the world print on a 2D plane, even most 3D printers are printing on a nearly flat 2D plane one layer at a time. The human body is largely not a 2D plane.
    3. Human skin varies, ask any tattoo artist. You can’t use the same pressure or the same type of needle on every person. And it takes people with experience to identify this. People who pay the most for their tattoos expect this expertise.

    Those last two reasons are not impossible solves in any sense, but they do greatly increase the cost and complexity of a machine that can automatically tattoo a person without injuring them.

    I’ll also throw a number 4 in here. Speaking for the US, unless you’ve made a name for yourself tattoo artists are largely exploited here. They are mostly misclassified as independent contractors but then treated as employees. They are under valued and under paid.

    So, how inexpensive can you make a machine to both purchase and maintain, while also being easy enough to undercut the already exploited labor in your average tattoo shop?












  • If you’re printing miniatures on FDM you should check out

    https://youtube.com/@tombof3dprintedhorrors

    and

    https://youtube.com/@onceinasixside

    The first, Fat Dragon Games, has many years of experience printing, designing, and selling models for FDM miniatures. He’s got opinions on filaments.

    The second channel is more recent to FDM printing but made the jump from printing exclusively in resin and is now enjoying a journey into FDM. He talks about his preferred filaments in his videos.

    I highly suggest you follow both of them. Also Fat Dragon minis aren’t the greatest detail or have very expressive poses, but they are design specifically to print in FDM without support. So I suggest checking them out. Brite Minis is another FDM exclusive miniature model seller.

    I haven’t done FDM minis in a while so I’m not sure what filament brand to recommend specifically for that. But definitely stick with PLA. I know I used to use E-Sun and I believe that’s what fat dragon used to recommend as well.

    DO NOT use white filament to print minis. Pigments in the filaments affect their properties and there’s a LOT of white pigment in white filament and it makes it more brittle. Black tends to have the least pigment, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that makes the best filament for minis. Fat dragon usually recommends grey but I think that’s more for aesthetic reasons.