Technical Experiment: 3D Printing Data onto Physical Surfaces with Binder-Jet Sintering
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Summary
The article describes an experiment with 3D printing data directly onto physical surfaces using a commercial print-on-demand service. The author used a binder-jet sintering process with marine stainless steel, modifying the Noto Sans Extracondensed font to achieve 0.1mm line width and 0.45mm lower-case 'm' width, resulting in 3KB of ASCII text per square inch. Key technical advice includes engraving rather than embossing to prevent letters from coming off due to impact and corrosion, and filling engraved letters with black wax for optical legibility under magnification.
Key quotes
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Slightly modified Noto Sans Extracondensed font with... Let me check the files... 0.1mm line width, 0.45mm lower-case 'm' width, dense letter and line spacing, gets 3KB ASCII per square inch.
Engrave, don't emboss, or the letters will come off with impact and corrosion!
Filling the engraved letters with black wax makes it optically legible under a good handheld magnifying glass.
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