3D Rubber Stamps

By on June 11th, 2009 in blog

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In retrospect, this is totally obvious, but Shapeways now provides a way to produce your own rubber stamp from uploaded images. Here’s how it works, as shown above:
  • Start with a desirable image
  • Convert it to black and white
  • Reduce the image’s colors to black or white – with as little gray as possible
  • Remove background clutter
  • Upload to Shapeways’ Rubber Stamper service for production
  • Stamp freely!
The service permits you to upload an image with multiple stamp images up to a size of 9×13 cm for only USD$25. We think this service will be quite popular, particularly with children – and apparently Shapeways does too, since many of their promotional pictures involve children’s stamps. The only improvement we can think of would be for them to provide an online photo manipulation service that cleans up the picture and directly integrates with the printing systems.

This is yet another simplification of 3D print technology enabling more people to get involved. Yay!

Via Shapeways

By Kerry Stevenson

Kerry Stevenson, aka "General Fabb" has written over 8,000 stories on 3D printing at Fabbaloo since he launched the venture in 2007, with an intention to promote and grow the incredible technology of 3D printing across the world. So far, it seems to be working!

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