Bottle Plotter
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Bottle Plotter
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#2This is awesome! Love that it is able to "plot" across a cylinder
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#3Glad to see the author ended up with something that works well. A quick search for "plotter rotary axis" yields several similar projects with a few different approaches, which is interesting.
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#5neat. might combine this with a bottle cutter to use them as planters for plants
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#6neat. might combine this with a bottle cutter to use them as planters for plants
like these https://www.instagram.com/bottles.delight/
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#7The end result is much cooler looking than I was expecting, and will be even more so with multiple colors.
For people who want labels for homemade bottled products, and who don’t want to make or buy a plotter, milk labels are pretty great. You print on plain paper (important: with a laser printer), cut to shape, dip in a shallow pan of milk, apply the paper to the bottle and ease out any wrinkles, then press gently on it with a paper towel.
When it dries, it stays on really well (unless it gets wet), and it comes off super easily for reusing the bottle (just get it wet).
Edit: I'm no artist, but chatgpt is good enough for generating images for a couple labels for bottles to bring to a friend's house: https://snap.philsnow.io/2024-04-23T21-51-59.om16cg7cwmuo244... and https://snap.philsnow.io/2024-04-23T21-51-23.4w510xksghqiamx...
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#8That final design (on the bottle) is excellent
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#9"Again looking on the final machine everything looks as very obvious solution."
It's probably only obvious after you done the other versions first. I know because I feel the same way about most of my projects. After enough of those things you get closer to a final in fewer iterations, but never have I done it on the first try for anything meant to last longer than the first use
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#10The end result is much cooler looking than I was expecting, and will be even more so with multiple colors. For people who want labels for homemade bottled products, and who don’t want to make or buy a plotter, milk labels are pretty great. You print on plain paper (important: with a laser printer), cut to shape, dip in a shallow pan of milk, apply the paper to the bottle and ease out any wrinkles, then press gently o…
I have been in the hell of labels for bottles/jars for a few years now. Never needing enough to send off for professional printing with their minimum order sizes, but more than enough that I've tried several label vendors and purchased laser printed dedicated for purpose. For my needs, none have proven worthy of anything more than "bring to a friend's house" or taking some pictures to look like you're doing something. I absolutely hate this aspect of the chosen side hustle. Not sure this would be the solution for me either, as it would just be too slow. Labels are just so much faster for quantity. If you're not doing quantity, would the expense of something like this make sense?