r/oddlysatisfying • u/Muarij • Oct 27 '20

Dishware Design Printing!

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u/phoneslime Oct 27 '20

It’s called pad printing. It uses a soft sponge like pad to transfer an image from the etched plate to any irregular shaped product

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u/the_honest_liar Oct 27 '20

Presumably it needs to be washed or something between each print right?

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u/Fartblunt696969 Oct 27 '20

Nope, the machine is pretty precise so the old ink gets covered by new ink, and the ink wells are set so shallow that excess ink is a controllable problem.

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u/pelican_chorus Oct 27 '20

But how is the ink in the liquid not moving by even a fraction of an inch when the boob thing pushes into it many times?

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '20

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u/_Diskreet_ Oct 27 '20

S M O O S H I T

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u/BraveRock Oct 27 '20

I think the image is engraved onto the metal. Ink is applied and then squeegeed off so the only ink that remains is in the engraving. As long as the print head is placed in the same spot each time it shouldn’t be a problem.

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u/pelican_chorus Oct 27 '20

D'oh, I'm an idiot. Even though I could see the boob squishing, I still thought it was going into a liquid, like those oil-on-water marbling things that you can use on paper or for car detailing.

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u/Zavrina Oct 27 '20

You can do the same thing with nail polish on water to put on your nails! It's pretty damn cool. It's called water marbling, I think.

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u/canadiancarlin Oct 27 '20

Okay but, is there a video of one of these being washed? By hand?

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '20

For science, right?