Honest Feedback on a Wallpen Vertical Printer

This is an excellent article, fascinating, and I wish more people had the funding to put into things like this.

Small, microscopic, negative feedback: I'd recommend an extra-critical eye when relying on GPT heavily for the 'skeleton' of an essay, everything becomes lists of lists of lists of lists instead of writing. The feedback section has this odd distanced 3rd person tone and includes unnecessary details for the context the essay is written in "pioneers of new technology must accept its imperfections as part of a learning process, rather than expecting flawless functionality from the outset."

During the past 3 months I had the chance to embark on a training and testing trajectory with a vertical printer from the firm @waouwall.be supported by #creathriveu .

This grant allowed me to explore vertical UV printing, its advantages and drawbacks. It also served as a testing ground to see if vertical printing was a valid candidate to replace vinyl lettering in terms of sustainability and efficiency in exhibition design.

You can find a short post here about the drawbacks and avantages of the technology here.

the people employed in the mural-painting industry are not quaking in their boots over the prospect of this device automating their jobs away.

Note they do not print billboards on site. The approach those folks use might be adaptable to needs like this, possibly they're already explored the commercial opportunities there and "large format vinyl printing" is already a service one might find commonly offered.

It's good that the taxpayers are funding research like this. Otherwise it has to be done by silly geeks and artists as hobbyist experiments / stunts.

We (hp) looked at this application a few times over the years but it's tough to build something around inkjet that you can roll up to a wall and it "just works". Instead, we focus on signage printing on vinyl for long term applications and thinner substrates for packaging and short term displays. Most people don't want to risk their pristine walls and have "oops, ran out of ink", banding or streaking events.