[henkboyd]

I love how this is a complementary technology to 3D printing by the way of a traditional printer. Simple. Effective. The biggest obstacle for widespread adoption might be software, in other words a robust toolkit for designing "wraps" of these imprints for your own 3D models.

[GhotiFish]

Well I may just be suffering from the curse of knowledge, but I found blenders texture paint system to be very good.

Once set, you can employ so many techniques with it to map images to a 3d model.