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Vaccuforming inks are probably considered to be the replacement, which is not a bad way to do it. However, articulating heads in that particular case are a pretty good idea as you're working with known geometry. Technically speaking, it wouldn't be terribly hard to replace such a system...

With long-jetting heads, might be doable with dynamic controls to firing power. Would just require a relatively slow scan speed. That said, there are some HUGE printheads out there. Something like tilt would probably help a ton too, but overall, lots of demons to suss out.

Just dug it up on AliExpress/eBay, just a 6x 1 liter tanks, black for UV, stirrers, timer, and level alarms.

Looked into this, the trick is getting a printhead that is big enough to print a decent area, while having a small enough nozzle plate footprint to support quick, precise motions. Computational power is definitely there, as well as the kinematics and topology detection.

I mean, you can print cylinders and spheres, just use unidirectional and keep it on the shallower part of the curves.

We do prefer to have good bright lighting in our shop of inkjet horrors at least.

It's less of a lab, more of a crime scene. But instead of bodies hacked up into little bits and humans with signs of horrific experiments to give them 8 arms, it's printers.

Varnish (clear), White, Cyan, Magenta and of course, yellow and black. Going to be bypassing the bulk ink station entirely, the travel path is STUPIDLY long, it uses degas filters that are over $250 each (16 of the things) and the tanks are a monster 2-liters each for some inks and 4 for...

Over an inch, but at that point, it looked like it was badly airbrushed.

Did some Playstation 5's, those were a lot of drop. Stuff gets pretty dusty. Using LD2 mode on a UJF-6042MKII helped a bit, but it did come out well enough for the customer to like it. If using a bidirectional printer, set print to unidirectional for better results.

Bulk tanks came in from China, nice. Got stirrers on all colors, float switches/alarms, circulation timer, etc.

Think they'll notice when those big 16 head machines only have 2 heads? I could go for a crate of Gen6's about now.

I think it's a 3000? White one on their site. The head control system is just Hoson Soft boards /controllers.

The unit I will be upgrading is sold under the "Xante" brand, just uses a single XP600 head and they charge like $30K for the silly thing. The carriage does have up/down movement over the bed controlled by a simple beam-break sensor to automatically raise the print carriage. Frame kit runs...

Currently swimming in flatbeds, but about to do a 4 head conversion on a small UV flatbed for someone. Using a quad XP600 system, and will document as I go.

The keys are a simple hash check, no internet verification or anything special. Can just install as many times as you want.

The cycling that happens most often is just recirculating the white ink. Yeah, it'll do it a lot and be annoying as hell for a bit, but you'll get used to it. Honestly would've just made more sense to just use a really basic microcontroller to do circulation duty, but the thing has to boot fully...

Whatcha want for it, and what does Reece say is wrong with it? Do you want it sold, or fixed?

If missing a single channel completely, I'd go for a damper swap/check lines. If missing lines across multiple channels, I would do cap station too. Make sure cap is properly aligned as well.

Hell yeah, thanks for sharing!