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A 3D-Printed Business Card Embosser
- amelius 1y agoCool, but I was more impressed by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36176198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36176198
- nomel 1y agoWith the itty bitty oled displays now available [1], Doom should now have a chance! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ztqNAVVsY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ztqNAVVsY
- differtoname 1y agocool
- majorchord 1y agoBut can it do watermarks?
- timnetworks 1y agosure, just dip it in water first
- btbuildem 1y agoI like how they kept it simple and minimal. If you look into embossers, their form factor is quite different (more akin to a construction stapler). I've been tinkering with a variation on the theme -- something that can emboss paper / cardboard / thin sheet metal. 3D printed dies work great, but it's some rabbit hole! Lots and lots to learn.
- curtisszmania 1y ago[dead]
- mikepurvis 1y agoIt would be interesting to try to have actual registration so that the embossed design can interact with the printed copy rather that just being an arbitrary background decoration.
- ugh123 1y agoThe way I understand your comment is you could have a scene or objects printed on a card, then line up an embossed design over the print to create depth or imprint specific areas of the print creating various effects. That would be interesting
- em-bee 1y agoalso a tool that generates the emboss pattern based on the design of the card. so that for example a logo on the card gets embossed.
- cm2187 1y agoor the text in 3d, like credit cards used to be
- spwa4 1y agoI think that was not done by embossing but by "3d printing" on the business card directly.
- richrichardsson 1y agoI don't think I'm misremembering, but the back side of the card had recesses of the characters, so it was in fact embossed (in the UK at least).
- cm2187 1y agoYou mean business or credit card? Credit Cards I believe was embossing, you had the negative of the numbers on the back. They did that because before you had electronic card readers, merchant were taking credit card payments by making a carbon copy of the credit card number on the invoice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_imprinter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_imprinter
- notpushkin 1y agoFor some inexplicable reason, this site does not load properly for me. It also has apparently eaten all my memory. Edit: it works if you put it through archive.ph: https://archive.ph/ruSeX https://archive.ph/ruSeX And here’s the model collection: https://makerworld.com/en/collections/453534-business-card-embosser https://makerworld.com/en/collections/453534-business-card-e...
- tempeler 1y agoEventually, I’ll have a fancy business card like Paul Allen’s!
- tibbon 1y agoOh you’re also into M&A?
- spragl 1y agoOr you could just print the business cards themselves with your 3D-printer.
- 2muchcoffeeman 1y agoThat would be really slow and not as versatile as an embosser.
- aleph_minus_one 1y agoOr (considering the creativity of the 3D printing scene) make your business card a kit card from which one can build one's own working 3D printer. :-)
- adenta 1y agoI wish it was easy for a CAD n00b to create templates for this. Like I want my business card to be the emboss
- omnimus 1y agoMake two blocks sized as business card. Extrude your graphic in one and make inverse hole of the graphic with some tolerance in the other. You will get better results that's easy to model, print and align. Just pushing two blocks by hand and adding your weight will most likely be enough to make nice impression. The reason is that you have the inverted side - normally you would have just one plate pushing against some softer rubber so the paper has nowhere to go and you need a lot more force. Tbh this roller design is needlesly complicated for business cards. Printing the rolls with overhangs will require supports. Roller press for graphics has some advantages like consistency of force and pressing of different sized/long pieces. None of which are useful here. Besides you wouldn't have emboss on the roll (unless you were printing infinite patterns) - you would press plate and paper through smooth roller press.
- derkades 1y agoCool idea and well designed model. Nice!
- tehdely 1y agoMy card is die-cut. My card is foil-stamped. My card is embossed.
- aleph_minus_one 1y agoIs this the relevant reference? https://x.com/goldman/status/1377437553830203395 https://x.com/goldman/status/1377437553830203395 (longer quote: "My card is die cut, my card is foil stamped, my card is embossed. It doesn’t fit in a Rolodex because it doesn’t belong in a Rolodex.").
- ricardobeat 1y agoGreat design. Printing without supports is faster and gives better quality surfaces. Supports are one of the main drawbacks of FDM 3D printing, it takes a lot of effort and limits your designs. Can’t wait until 4/5-axis printers become the norm.
- Jemm 1y agoCool. I remember seeing designs like this in the early RepRap hobby 3d Printer days .
- Jemm 1y agoBraille version https://pinshape.com/items/34568-3d-printed-braille-business-card-writer https://pinshape.com/items/34568-3d-printed-braille-business...
- gmoore 1y agopretty cool