Hello,
I own a manufacturing business, small one, we have been in business for 30 years, building foam products primarily. We also do dye sublimation on various materials, as well as vinyl printing on large format printers.
I am about to begin a new project, that incorporates a dye sublimated metal disk, with customers supplied graphics/logos, that will be bonded/glued to a 1/2" thick 2" diameter plastic disk, color to match the logo colors as close as possible, with a metal nail or pin that will extend out the bottom, it will form a pin that will hold archery target faces on foam targets.
Polyethylene rod is not available in a large number of colors, I was told that a 3D printer would be ideal to make the plastic disks, I know nothing about them, besides they are really cool in what they can do, and the cost has come down dramatically from what they cost ten or fifteen years ago.
So my questions are
1. Would this process work for what we want to do?
a. Would need to make the disks in various colors
b. The material needs to be reasonably strong
c. Would you advise making a "rod" and cutting 1/2" wafers or make each disk individually?
2. Is there a printer that you would recommend to do this, that would combine reasonable speed, with cost, and reliability.
a. I read there are three different processes that is used, it looks to me like the one with the spool of plastic line would be ideal. Right or wrong?
b. Where is the best place to purchase a printer, is there a recommended brand, and are there any brands that tend to be more trouble?
c. What is a reasonable price for a good printer?
I suspect that if we decide this is feasible and will do what we want to do, we will find many other uses for this, and probably branch out into other things. After I purchased our first wide format vinyl printer I thought that would be all I would ever need...now I have five of them...lol.
If I am missing any questions, please feel free to fill me in, I am so ignorant in this subject, I do not know, what I do not know. But I am looking forward to learning.
Thank you one and all.
I own a manufacturing business, small one, we have been in business for 30 years, building foam products primarily. We also do dye sublimation on various materials, as well as vinyl printing on large format printers.
I am about to begin a new project, that incorporates a dye sublimated metal disk, with customers supplied graphics/logos, that will be bonded/glued to a 1/2" thick 2" diameter plastic disk, color to match the logo colors as close as possible, with a metal nail or pin that will extend out the bottom, it will form a pin that will hold archery target faces on foam targets.
Polyethylene rod is not available in a large number of colors, I was told that a 3D printer would be ideal to make the plastic disks, I know nothing about them, besides they are really cool in what they can do, and the cost has come down dramatically from what they cost ten or fifteen years ago.
So my questions are
1. Would this process work for what we want to do?
a. Would need to make the disks in various colors
b. The material needs to be reasonably strong
c. Would you advise making a "rod" and cutting 1/2" wafers or make each disk individually?
2. Is there a printer that you would recommend to do this, that would combine reasonable speed, with cost, and reliability.
a. I read there are three different processes that is used, it looks to me like the one with the spool of plastic line would be ideal. Right or wrong?
b. Where is the best place to purchase a printer, is there a recommended brand, and are there any brands that tend to be more trouble?
c. What is a reasonable price for a good printer?
I suspect that if we decide this is feasible and will do what we want to do, we will find many other uses for this, and probably branch out into other things. After I purchased our first wide format vinyl printer I thought that would be all I would ever need...now I have five of them...lol.
If I am missing any questions, please feel free to fill me in, I am so ignorant in this subject, I do not know, what I do not know. But I am looking forward to learning.
Thank you one and all.
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