Anker’s UV Printer Can Handle Almost Anything... If You Know What You’re Doing

You all were clearly interested in (and in some cases, enraged by) Anker’s expensive, finicky, but altogether endearing EufyMake E1 UV printer. So much so, I’ve gotten more than a few questions about just what it can and can’t print on. So I’m back here again, printing up a storm to find the far horizons of the EufyMake E1’s limits. The $2,300 printer doesn’t act like your standard inkjet. It’s using a kind of ink that immediately cures when subjected to UV light. That means it can effectively print on almost anything, from ceramics to glass to plastic and everything in between. You just need to choose a flat plane or a round mug with the additional $400 rotary attachment. The EufyMake E1 prints at 1,440 PPI, or pixels per inch. That offers a high degree of image quality, even when printing on very, very small objects. You’re set for any size so long as you use a high-quality digital image for your print. If you imagine you’d want to print on a Lego brick and finally get rid of finicky stickers, you can. Whatever surface texture you introduce will show through the print to some degree. I printed the same image, Claude Monet’s famous “Low Tide at Pourville,” on a dozen different mat