# Inkjet Printer to 3D Printer Hack.

**July 24, 2010**

DIY 3D printer hack…. The first [HP 3D Printer.](/content/blog/archives/357-Stratasys-and-HP-join-forces-to-make-3D-printers.html)

Sweet product hack & demo of manually printing simple 3D objects using an old HP 540 inkjet printer by [Scorch1974](http://www.youtube.com/user/scorch1974). Even smaller than a [pizza oven](/content/blog/archives/360-The-Pizza-Comparison,-or-why-HP-3D-printers-are-pizza-ovens.html).

## 3 comments

1. **Boing Boing** (July 24, 2010 at 12:03 pm)  
   Got a HP 540 inkjet lying around? Here’s an ingenious way to hack it into a crude but serviceable 3D printer. Inkjet Printer to 3D Printer Hack. Homemade 3D printer goop made from maltodextrin costs 1/50 of the … HOWTO Make a 3D printer out of Legos Graph compares price of inkjet ink to other liquids Printing circuits with inkjet printers HOWTO trick your printer into using ALL its ink…

2. **Shapeways Blog** (August 31, 2010 at 9:56 am)  
   Not much information here other than with a 250mW laser, a kg of plastic powder and 50ml of thermo-gel, Replaser has managed to laser sinter some basic polymer forms in a kinda 2.5D printing (not quite 3D) that are really quite strong.

3. **wizific** (September 21, 2011 at 11:41 pm)  
   I must leave 5 comments in the comments section or bad things might happen.