The game has changed. Remember this day.
https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/xyzprinting-combines-inkjet-fdm-da-vinci-color-3d-printer-pricing-technical-specifications-120704/
What… How does THAT work?
They mix the in in the hot end it looks like
I think they spray ink on top of regular printed plastic using inkjet heads between layers.
YES!! Someone finally developed the idea I’ve been sitting on and unable to screw with myself. 
But it’s from XYZprinting so the quality is passable at best. Also $2,999.
The product video though…
XYZprinting - don’t they push proprietary consumables in their products?
Some Brazilian students did this years ago with color sharpies mounted on servos. Honestly kind of surprised it took somebody this long to do it with inkjet cartridges. There’s a lot of history of using them in other types of 3D printers.
btw: no heated bed for $3000 ??! I guess it may print only (their) pla 
@Jeremie_Francois From what I gather, it only prints translucent PLA. The inkjet cartridges do the rest. You don’t need full-color mechanical parts THAT bad 
I think people are focusing on “ulgh XYZprinting for $3000” when they should be focusing on how much cheaper and better this will be than other true full-color printing technologies on the market today.
Robustness: PLA beats Zcorp sandstone.
Amount of cleanup: FDM beats Mcor paper lamination.
Cost: XYZprinting proprietary consumables beat Stratasys Objet proprietary consumables.
It’s got serious, serious potential to be a game-changer.
@Ryan_Carlyle you are right actually (as usual!).
I do not mean that $3000 is that expensive for bringing color to 3D printing but just that if you expect to print PET or ABS at some time with it then you will need a second printer. May be I am asking too much here, but a hot bed opens a lot of possibilities for a generic printer.
Now, admittedly, PET may not even be available on some “professional” printers either, or it will cost $450+/kg on others. So…
Time will tell if they managed to make 3D color printing reliable, in which case I agree it would be a real breakthrough for many professionals. At the very least it looks like it can do vivid+precise coloring, which already is something!
I guess it might take in game obj files then and 3D model design might start to have mesh painting or wrapping texture files onto meshes as part of the routine. It may get interesting. I hope others follow suit soon. Just imagine if exporting your game characters to 3D prints was easy and cheap. We will get there sooner or later.
@Jeremie_Francois FYI the spec listed here:
says “Printing Material – 3D Color-inkjet PLA, PLA, Tough PLA (Q4 2017), PETG, Color PLA”
Wait till you see the ink cartridge price, I guess it’ll be a like owing a HP 
Sounds just like US Patent 20150343704 obtained by Apple in 2015, which describes a full color 3d printer that applies ink or paint to colourise the object after, or as it is printed
@Andre_Kjellstrup : $35 USD per 600g PLA Spool and $65 for a 40ml Ink Cartridge (40ml = how much?)… but anyhow not that bad considering there is no other low cost option on the market.
(thanks @Mark_Wheadon for the link to the specs btw, I stand corrected – even though PETG without a heated bed is not obvious imho)
I’d just like to think of it as a harbinger and not a game changer…
@NathanielStenzel That is the regular result when exporting uv-mapped, textured obj’s from applications such as Blender, 3D Studio Max, Maya, Daz Studio and so on.
Three things are needed for the maker community to replicate this proprietary technology. Develop porous filament that accepts colour, a slicer that extract the colour to print from the textured object and finally marry the inkjet printerhead with control sw into the 3d printer. Textured objects to print is allready available. So where do we start?