The industrial printers for example, especially the PageWide Web Press line are impressive. The T1100 is a huge beast.
Then there are the life science products that can do precision dispensing of fluids for life sciences and drug discovery. Some of them also do individual single live cell dispensing.
(2) The key to this using quality materials. You’ve got to use good coated paper (which is relatively expensive.). You can mostly trust OEM ink although I found low-end EcoTank printers use ink that fades in six months although the higher end models like the ET-8550 are better. Look at forums and you will find many versions of “I was trying to print borderless and all I got was this inksplosion” and the common denominator is third party inks. There could be testing of third party inks that proves they are comparable to or even superior too the OEM links but as it is there is no testing because… they target a consumer who doesn’t care.
https://www.dustyrobotics.com/compare/fieldprinter-vs-sitepr...
If you give it a big job, it freezes halfway and just spins its wheels as fast as it can until you unplug it.
It refuses to paint yellow lines when it's out of blue paint.
It asks you for feedback after doing any and every job.
It doesn't have good Linux support.
It has no off button. The only modes are printing, standby at half power, or unplugged.
When you want to just print a small blue square on the floor, it makes xxxjuukkktsssssruuuuukkkttt sounds for 5 minutes, pauses for another 2, zooms at max speed to the location on the floor, pauses for 10 seconds, and begins doing the actual job it was designed to do, but does it in a shade of blueish brown.
This one called Dusty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pq2ZG19hGg
Oh nice someone else mentioned it
Refills: $5,000
And others will because some builders are as attracted to gee-whiz its new and shiny as in any other business.
>PCL reduces cost by 86% on interior curved lines layout at Vancouver airport
for random bits of complicated-shape fashion in a giant flat open area, I can see how it could almost immediately pay for itself.
that said... at that point it's probably competing with "we put a projector on the ceiling for a day, and went over the lines with chalk". which is quite cheap.
What if the plumber missed a drain or supply by an inch? Guessing the robot doesn't adjust its outline. I.e. if a sewer stub is wrong by a few inches, the wall needs to be moved to fit the toilet, or the slab needs to be busted up and the sewer line relocated.
I suppose if it gets some of this wrong, it'll be obvious, and a human can correct it.
It can correct course due to deviations in floor surface or obstructions pretty well.
For example a pipe might not be in the location shown on plan for many reasons ranging from simple human error to a delta between the plan location when the pipe was layed and the time the robot got its data…keep in mind that when the pipe went in there was only dirt, not anything to accept ink.
Places where high precision matters and services aren’t connected to the endpoint at the slab. That’s not most construction because progressive refinement is how most things are built.
We had to make so many compromises and wastages as a result. Bathrooms now smaller if we want to keep other rooms the same, bathtubs couldn't fit, aw man.
Then when the house went up to 2nd and 3rd levels, the staircase was narrow and wasn't connecting between the levels. That alone delayed us by 3 months as we had to get the architect to build a 3D model of the affected area so we could figure it out. We have to hoist furniture up through balconies as it can't fit through the stairs.
I think having some machinery that minimises human error would be very helpful.
Doesn't sound like a lot, but you're losing a foot and a half across a dimension of a house. That's very easily into the "Bathtub doesn't fit" territory.
When you found out the builders did that, what you should have done is stopped the work and have them correct their mistake on their own dime. This is an unforgivable mistake and a team of professional should never make something like that.
Obviously I am not in your shoes, but this is insane to me. Any supervisor or consultant or surveyor visiting the site should've caught that.
Can only be used with special DRM'd HP pencils. Must download and register with the app after it draws 25m of lines to continue use.
> Uploading to HP SitePrint Cloud
No thanks.
It draws on the floor for construction projects? Why?
Either there's no building or there's a building. If there's no building, then where does it draw on? If the building is already there, then what's the drawing for?
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i'll actually bet on some variety of inkjet/spray as it will better deal with surface imperfections and won't wear out
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