Even if you missed our Kickstarter campaign, it’s not too late to order the most powerful and affordable desktop 3D printing package available. Formlabs is proud to announce the Form Store, where you can place discounted pre-orders for the Form 1 for $3,299, a fraction of the cost of traditional stereolithography printers.
The Form Store will expand over time with exciting new offerings of the best 3D printing tools for the professional designer, engineer and maker. We are now offering the Form 1 starter package for pre-order (includes: Form Software, Form Finish Kit, and 1 liter of resin). Additional resin will be available for online purchase in 2013 as we get ready to ship our first printers. We will initially take orders for shipments to the USA, Canada, and the European Union as we evaluate plans to expand sales to other parts of the world.
For Kickstarter backers, the Form Store will also serve as our portal for collecting your shipping information. We want to make sure we have the most current information, so we will reach out to you closer to your Form 1 ship date.
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On the main page, there is an absolutely beautifully printed Rook/Castle chess piece with a small staircase printed inside.
Is the STL file for that piece publicly available?
Kyle,What a great idea. I wish you every success.I got my start in ptinring in 1964 at a trade school in Boston. For the first full year, I spent 4 hours a day in front of a type bank setting type from a California job case to a job stick, and pulling a couple of proofs, and then redistributing the type. (I think I still have a stick in my basement). The second year I got to move on to machine casting, and was trained on using a Ludlow display type caster, and a linotype. (I got assigned the project of rebuilding a linotype that year, what a way to learn about a fairly complex machine). Our second year also brought instruction in form makeup (working at a makeup stone using furniture and quoins to lock a form up in a chase), and makeready on small 10 X 15 C&P platen presses. I remember going home from school smelling like type wash (not much different than gasoline) with little bits of tissue paper and paste still clinging to my finger tips despite my attempts to scrub the remnants of the days makereadies fro my hands with pumice soap. Third year we were off to the other side of the shop where there were larger platen press, a Heidelberg windmill platen press, a Heidelberg flat bed press and a Meihle vertical press to master. I just loved learning how to run all that fantastic letterpress ptinring gear. Our fourth year we moved on to offset, which didn’t carry a tenth of the romance of having to understand every nuance of your form in order to get a good result that letterpress demanded.In 1968 I was off to college, RIT in Rochester NY was the best ptinring school on the planet then, so that is where I went. I drooled when I saw a 100 foot long lab lined up and down each side with bright shiny new Intertype casters some with automatic punched paper tape control. Wow did those things run fast. I also got my first introduction to Monotype at RIT. I think I learned more about typography, and typesetting in general from studying the Monotype keyboard and caster approach to machine set type than from any other approach to typesetting that I studied.Of course the commercial use of letterpress pretty much evaporated, even while I was studying it, in the 60 s and early seventies. Everything of course was moving to offset, and phototypesetting. In my senior year, I was part of a group that did an independent study project on the then current state of the art of phototypesetting. Full page makeup was in its infancy, and there was talk of a new kind of computer display being developed by Xerox corp. (also in Rochester) called WYSYWIG. Apparently, in later years a couple of young guys, Steve Jobs, and Steve Wasnyiak caught a look at the new Xerox display on a tour of the company, and built the concept into a new computer called the Macintosh. The rest of that story is Desktop publishing history. But I digress. Our independent study group had to present our findings to the School of Printing Faculty and the Gamma Epsilon Tau honorary ptinring fraternity (the ptinring geeks of the day). At the end of my part of the presentation, I made a prediction, it was that I felt that in my lifetime I would live to see the day that a ptinring press could be fully made ready, including having its plates or whatever images carrying medium it used, at the push of a button. Well, I think I turned 10 shades of red when this learned group let out a quiet but oh so discernible snicker. I’d love to stand in front of them again and return the chuckles they had that night.If you ever come to southern maine, please look me up, I would love to tour your mobile shop, and maybe even get my hands dirty a bit setting some type!I’m off to the kick starter web site to send you some support. I hope you reach your goals.
How strong is the plastic? Is it geared to prototyping or also meets functionality? I do see imagery of usage, but in other examples it looks brittle, other’s looks soft.
Another question, does the resin need to be managed? Example does does it deteriorate with air or solidify over time? Does one recycle the resin back into the bottle when changing colour?
Thumbs up and good luck!
Would like to know some estimates on print times and cost per cm3 of prints. THANKS.
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