July 5, 2011 at 14:21DIY textile printer with a minimum of cost
Somehow I wanted to print a picture of myself on a T-shirt. I climbed into the Internet - and there, it turns out, people have superprinters that print on these T-shirts. Great, I thought - but should I buy the same? But, having looked at the prices for them, drama and tragedy happened to me. Somehow they cost a little - for five thousand evergreens, you can find some used one and it will be cheap. In general, the amount is not the same as buying it as a toy. And then I remembered the good old EPSON 1290, which was gathering dust in a closet at the office ...
In general, lying around in a closet in the office of Epson 1290. As long as I work here - so much he was lying around. It seems like his head was drying up and there was no point in reviving him. In general, I take it home to myself with the thought that if I buy something, I’ll buy a new one. Pulled, launched, cleaned the head and a miracle - prints! Excellent! Screwdriver in hand and let's disassemble it - removed all the shafts, removed all the clamps, removed the drive shaft with a motor and a rotation sensor. Further is better. Grinder in hand and cut out the central part of the metal frame - there we will have a product on which we will print.
And then the most difficult part begins - to collect everything from what is at home: it was completely by chance that the house turned out to be:
-kitchen roller guides (barbarously removed from the kitchen)
-cuts of PVC windowsill (lying on the balcony)
- a shelf from an old bedside table - a
small piece of flat aluminum The
kitchen rails and a shelf from a bedside table were turned into a movable table, the sidewalls were trimmed with PVC windowsill - on top of them put what was left of the printer. In a piece of aluminum I made holes for a motor, a shaft - I cut a hole for this case in the sidewall (which we have from the windowsill), tightly placed under a movable table. And ... profit - everything works and prints. It remains only to bring it all into a decent appearance and not do it on snot - and here you have cheap solutions for printing at least on T-shirts, at least on boxes ... but in general, you can cram anything into it and print on it.
Now I’m thinking of making him a more or less decent case from chipboard, I have already ordered the CISS and, I think, it will turn out no worse than the analogs for 5 thousand green ones. Why they ask for such money - I completely do not understand.
PS since the article is still being read - I’ll add it
and that would be fun higher - that’s what eventually came out of this www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xRNa3NbcLvc
PPS Well, I’ll add the latest news from 2014 - after a few years it all resulted in small-scale production of textile printers))) Continuation: T-shirt printer: from home crafts to the serial model of textile printer Edit
In general, lying around in a closet in the office of Epson 1290. As long as I work here - so much he was lying around. It seems like his head was drying up and there was no point in reviving him. In general, I take it home to myself with the thought that if I buy something, I’ll buy a new one. Pulled, launched, cleaned the head and a miracle - prints! Excellent! Screwdriver in hand and let's disassemble it - removed all the shafts, removed all the clamps, removed the drive shaft with a motor and a rotation sensor. Further is better. Grinder in hand and cut out the central part of the metal frame - there we will have a product on which we will print.
And then the most difficult part begins - to collect everything from what is at home: it was completely by chance that the house turned out to be:
-kitchen roller guides (barbarously removed from the kitchen)
-cuts of PVC windowsill (lying on the balcony)
- a shelf from an old bedside table - a
small piece of flat aluminum The
kitchen rails and a shelf from a bedside table were turned into a movable table, the sidewalls were trimmed with PVC windowsill - on top of them put what was left of the printer. In a piece of aluminum I made holes for a motor, a shaft - I cut a hole for this case in the sidewall (which we have from the windowsill), tightly placed under a movable table. And ... profit - everything works and prints. It remains only to bring it all into a decent appearance and not do it on snot - and here you have cheap solutions for printing at least on T-shirts, at least on boxes ... but in general, you can cram anything into it and print on it.
Now I’m thinking of making him a more or less decent case from chipboard, I have already ordered the CISS and, I think, it will turn out no worse than the analogs for 5 thousand green ones. Why they ask for such money - I completely do not understand.
PS since the article is still being read - I’ll add it
and that would be fun higher - that’s what eventually came out of this www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xRNa3NbcLvc
PPS Well, I’ll add the latest news from 2014 - after a few years it all resulted in small-scale production of textile printers))) Continuation: T-shirt printer: from home crafts to the serial model of textile printer Edit