Vistaprint Leaf Business Card Holder
Vistaprint Leaf Business Card Holder
Published 2014-06-09T13:04:09+00:00
Super cool plant inspired business card holder! Altogether, a very nice and straightforward print.
“Imagine you are a small business... You want to develop a professional and aesthetically pleasing image. The market today does not provide a solution to meet your needs. Everyone knows that the terms high quality, color and professional design simply don’t belong in the same sentence with inexpensive, low volume, easy or quick. This incompatibility represents a gap in the market. Simply put, there is a clear market need.” - Robert Keane, Foudner of Vistaprint (extract from his 1994 business plan)
'Vistaprint has over 25 localised websites that serve various markets around the world, over 4,100 employees, three state of art manufacturing facilities and 13 offices, including its corporate headquarters in Venlo, the Netherlands. Vistaprint is focused on giving the 50 million micro businesses around the world a chance to make an impression and stand out with professional marketing products and services at an affordable price.' vistaprint.com
The green & autumn version: leaves printed at 100% scale, trunk 110%. Making the trunk bigger made it possible to put the leaves in easily. Trunk took approx. 5 hours to print at 0.1mm and 15% infill, and the leaves took approximately 1hr at 0.1mm and 100% infill (printed 2 at the time). No raft and support. Designers print (green and white): Both STLs can be printed directly to the print bed with out support structure or a raft, I had that feature switched off on mine, the raft makes such a mess to remove. The leaf STL is optimised for a layer thickness of 0.15mm, any larger and you'll start to lose detail. Also the "number of shells" was set to zero. Otherwise you lose detail again. I don't know if the MakerBot slicing software has that as a configurable feature. I tried to generate the code for my FlashForge a while back using MakerWare, but it tried to make the print head move off its rails! It didn't sound good either. For my test prints I used 1.75mm PLA with a nozzle temp of 205 deg and a print bed temp of 50 deg. Printing in White and Jade Green transparent.
Date published | 09/06/2014 |
Dimensions | 125 x 250 x 250mm |
Complexity | Medium |
Support Free | YES |