Great suggestion. 3d printed ABS may not be strong enough to emboss metal but should be fine to emboss Mylar.
Strength is mostly about how you layer the part as it prints. A flat plate with raised letters should be quite strong in the press direction. From there I would wonder about accuracy of the letter shapes etc. Small-scale prints often show some artifacts from printing. Depends on how much tuning the printer operator has done. Andy > On Nov 30, 2014, at 10:44 AM, Mr Yum <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greg Peek <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A real PDX hipster would use an antique printing press to emboss their >> artisanal, non-gmo, gluten free book covers. You could try that if >> Freegeek doesn't have an operating daisywheel. >> >> I know there is a group of printing press geeks (dorks? aficionados?) in >> PDX. One of them might trade some printing for some electronics or software >> hacking. They would certainly be willing to give you some pointers on >> acquiring and running a press for embossing. > > Heh, I had the same thought but didn't offer it up because the OP seemed > to want ownership of the means of production(!) and those old printing > presses can be quite spendy and hard to come by. > > Along similar lines though, what about using 3D printing to make an > embossing template, then cranking that through some old-fashioned ringers > like those found on an old washing machine? I don't really know much WRT > material hardnesses of these printable plastics; maybe they aren't that > durable? I know back when the process was called "rapid prototyping" no > one had any expectation of actually using the printed results beyond > checking fit-up and appearance, though the sintered metal variations might > have been strong enough for embossing. > _______________________________________________ > dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list > [email protected] > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber _______________________________________________ dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list [email protected] http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber
