Commercial dye-sub printers are expensive, but there’s a cheaper route in the form of an Epson printer that can be converted. This in turn prints onto a transfer paper, from which the ink is ...

As such, the Kodak Mini 2 Retro aims to be one of the best portable printers on the market, as well as one of the most cost-effective. It’s not the only Kodak Mini '4Pass' dye-sub printer in town.

A DLP 3D printer works by shining light into a vat of photosensitive polymer using a Digital Light Processing projector, curing a thin layer of the goo until a solid part has been built up.