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The New Hotness

  • Plastic Plant Signs

    PrusaSlicer can recognize “things that look like logos” and process them with two different materials, so I tried it out with some plant signs:

    Plant Signs - 50pct scale
    Plant Signs – 50pct scale

    They came out surprisingly well, particularly for characters with two adjacent filament threads:

    Plant Signs - 50pct scale - 2-stroke
    Plant Signs – 50pct scale – 2-stroke

    Smaller characters with single threads show more stringing, a characteristic of PETG, but it brushes off easily enough:

    Plant Signs - 50pct scale - 1-stroke
    Plant Signs – 50pct scale – 1-stroke

    While the existing text isn’t nearly as informative as real plant tags, they’re surely more durable and a chunkier font would improve both printability and readability.

    I suggested Mary hand them out to any of her gardening cronies in need of a chuckle …