This cool video shows that the makers of Printball highly rely on the machine. The PrintBall is like an Ink-Jet printer using a PaintBall Gun as printhead.

"The gun is mounted on a custum made pan & tilt unit which is connected to a Max/Msp based software through an Atmel chip [programmed in Basic]. The software allow the users to load and analyze images. The resolution of the image and the space between the point can be adjusted."

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