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Engineer turns old 3D printer into a tattoo gun that you definitely shouldn't use at home
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this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
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Honestly, I'm slightly surprised 'tattoo printers' haven't become a thing for those little 'formulaic' tattoos. (Stars, hearts, bird silhouettes, etc.) People love getting inked up and I could see it making those sorts of tattoos absurdly fast, albeit probably much more intensely painful due to the speed.
I could see this being the future of tattoos in general. Most tattoos are designed digitally, or at least go through a digital phase. Load the image and hit print. No more shitty "my artist was drunk that day" posts, which I'm sure are actually rare as hell, but scare so many people off of getting a tattoo.
Basically, it'd take out the human element and make the experience a little shittier, but with a more polished (again, less human) final project... So it fits 100% perfectly in line with everything we do as a society.