It's a pretty cool device. The title would be even cooler if it'd say "make-up p...

_0nac · on Jan 10, 2019

It's marketing: the average guy won't buy a "make-up printer", but a "skin printer" sounds much more palatable.

cronix · on Jan 10, 2019

But then we wouldn't have had Buffalo Bill and the Silence of the Lambs would have just been some geek in a basement printing skin.

Someone · on Jan 11, 2019

https://3dprint.com/162193/wfirm-3d-printed-skin-burn-care/

I wouldn’t call it palatable, though, as intended use is on severe wounds. That doesn’t make for pretty videos, even on fake wounds (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q8DnF0tF7D0, https://school.wakehealth.edu/Research/Institutes-and-Center...)

amelius · on Jan 11, 2019

"skin printer" sounds like they are printing new skin

(that's what I thought when I first read the title)

_Microft · on Jan 10, 2019

Indeed, half of me was expecting Star Trek:Insurrection-like madness.

hn_throwaway_99 · on Jan 10, 2019

Yeah, they call it an "inkjet printer" because it prints ink, not a "paper printer" because it prints onto paper.

ovao · on Jan 10, 2019

Technically, it doesn’t print “inkjets” either.

userbinator · on Jan 10, 2019

I had a horrible misparse of the title and thought it was about a brand of "printer wipes" called Skin, then wondered what years and faces had to do with it... it made me click for sure.

NegativeLatency · on Jan 11, 2019

I thought it was printing disembodied skin.