Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Lego Printing

Found this Gizmodo blog post with some behind the scenes of the lego printing process.

Lego Helmet Printing Video

I had no idea it was basically a big rubber stamp that printed the patterns on the Minifigs. I feel reasonably confident I can replicate this process at home with some effort. I think I have found the process description on wikipedia. It is called:

Pad Printing

If you want the TLDR explanation of pad printing look at the flash animation here.


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