3D Printing 10,000,000 COLORS?

[@MimakiEurope]

Thank you for visiting our booth at Formnext! And thanks to the viewers for the nice comments. We'll continue putting R&D efforts into our 3D print technology!

[@phlm93]

What you achieved with this method is decades ahead of any other 3D printing tech out there. Truly impressive, congratulations!!!

[@3amali1]

Great to see your work making great progress, and I hope your ink bottles don't have RFID tags that make the printer reject them due to "expiry" like other competetors!

[@Syzygy2048]

Amazing tech. You're using inkjet to apply not just the colors, but also the resin right? Are the colors mixed in the print head or on the model? I'm sure it's possible to print with multiple materials such as with solid and flexible resin (I guess it must be, considering you're printing a washable support material)?

[@ArnaudMEURET]

Now please swear not to prevent the DIY community from developing this approach like Stratasys did. Think progress of humanity over patent profiting.

[@straightorade4918]

Those are some of the coolest prints I’ve ever even heard of keep up the great work

[@xavierdumont]

This might be the most impressive 3DP tech I've seen. What a time to be alive!!

[@PragyAgarwal]

2 min papers?

[@Corbald]

Just two more papers down the line and we'll be at 3d printing replacement bodies!

[@zaphodbeeblebrox2981]

You should definitely grab onto your papers!

[@Segphalt]

I'm certainly holding onto my papers.

[@chrisphobia]

Papers please!

[@MakersMuse]

So cool! This is the tech I can see becoming the dominant consumer 3DP process in future. Nothing to tinker with, just prints that you wash off in water to get the final model. If they can get the ease of use and cost down enough it'll be huge.

[@kyleyoung2464]

if they make a low cost version, they can take my money!

[@markburton5292]

wonder how durable it is. that also has a impact on what you can use it for.

[@Altirix_]

@@markburton5292 likely the same as any other resin printer, great for creative prints but not so much for functional ones. still this is such a big leap for those who want creative prints that need colour and a lot of them.

[@a178design]

I can see this tech upend many industries.

[@ericlotze7724]

This is like those “Polyjet” printers, right? If I remember correctly the Patents for that are expired, so we could maybe get a surge akin to what happened with FDM if some developers/interested people get on this!

[@shawnmichaelis1609]

That building print is INSANE, we’re not far off from printing whole video scene dioramas. Imagine a shot from boarderlands or world of Warcraft in full 3d and color on a table

[@JoeMalovich]

Imagine a stop motion film where each frame was a new print (maybe just the characters within)

[@rallyfeind]

@@JoeMalovich Coraline was largely done like you are describing. You should check out some of the stuff that was done about how they were already thinking this way.

[@JoeMalovich]

@@rallyfeind I did not know that. Thank you.

[@rallyfeind]

Gladly, I think there is a video somewhere here on Tube.

[@High_Lord_Of_Terra]

Or when it's linked to AI so you can print your prompts.

[@YearsOfLeadPoisoning]

I almost don't believe these aren't just painted. This is the first colour 3D printer tech that's actually what I've hoped it would be.

[@ebouwman034]

Exactly! But look at the laces on that shoe… it’s probably way better than what’s possible with hand painting. This video blew my mind.

[@Busa123gum]

The detail on these prints are insane

[@Durkan34]

I know the channels more focused on domestic 3D printing, but as a professional engineer (who doesn’t work with additive) I really appreciate and enjoy these “more technical/industrial” videos.

[@3DPrintingNerd]

I'm SO HAPPY you like these!

[@lazyman1011]

@@3DPrintingNerd More please and if possible visit them or others for longer vid’s.

[@nikolaikai940]

@@3DPrintingNerd These videos are super cool and informative, it's a glimpse into the future of domestic 3D printing after all. Thanks for covering this cutting edge tech. 👍

[@RoseKindred]

The concept is not new to me, but the technology involved is. This was kinda amazing to see it on a large scale and with physical objects instead of "3D paintings" on flat surfaces. The accuracy is uncanny. Thank you for featuring this.

[@3DPrintingNerd]

It's the accuracy that really blew my mind. Up close it's INSANE.

[@truvak]

@@3DPrintingNerd is it me or you can see cloth texture on those little couches?

[@TDOGGisawsome]

I saw someone diy a prusa with 2 separate xy axis and the second one had a modified inkjet cartridge salvaged from an old printer. Cool to see bigger companies developing the technology as well

[@ThatGuyKazz]

isn't this basically the same thing that the Stratasys Polyjet printer does? That has been around for a couple years now. It is nice to some other companies getting into that space for sure cuz that will drive down costs and maybe one day something like this will be affordable to average people but I don't think it is really cutting edge.

[@pjwarez]

What will really impress me is when they bring this tech to the Home/Hobby/DIY market

[@vicentevillegas1524]

Holy crap. This is the pinnacle of 3d printing that I've ever seen

[@jonhaze7537]

its plastic lol

[@baguazhang2]

In terms of a whole package, most definitely. In terms of resolution, there are other 3D printing techniques that can print things at orders of magnitude higher resolution.

[@JonS]

I’m been talking about Mimaki for years (I saw them at CES). Virtually no one knew about them. Thanks for highlighting this exciting technology Joel.

[@3DPrintingNerd]

Dude, SO COOL RIGHT. So thankful we saw them!

[@dadandme]

This is impressive!! I checked out the specs on their website and the printing time is pretty fast for this level of details. The only negative points are the size and the price (~$230k), yes it's a professional printer. I hope to see smaller and cheaper 3D printers like this one in the future.

[@BaneWilliams]

Was ~230k for the larger of the two? 230k for the 553 seems right, but a little pricey for the 2207

[@dadandme]

@@BaneWilliams ~$230k was the only price I found on internet for the 553. After your reply and searching more I found ~$40k for the 2207 which is way more affordable. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[@Aikano9]

the closest you can do is to resin print and then have someone meticulously hand paint it, and you still wouldn’t have this degree of color accuracy and detail. Employing a model painter this skilled would quickly reach 230K in a few years

[@Aikano9]

@@ButterfatFarms I know

[@Aikano9]

@@ButterfatFarms to have them professionally painted with this amount of color accuracy and skill, I’d recon easily 100k a year

[@ShadowDrakken]

Joel, I'm pretty sure he said "picoliter" rather than "picometer", as pL is the general terminology used for inkjet print heads. Also, while 6pL is absolutely tiny, it's pretty average for an inkjet. Some home inkjets go as low as 4pL droplets.

[@pauldeddens5349]

I wouldnt be surprised if this gets wide-spread adoption, we get even higher resolution pL.

[@Brubigo]

But he cofirms saying its 10^-12, and i don't get it because a sphere that size would have a 12 micrometer diameter, and that is a very small droplet...that is the size of a whiteblood cell. How is the ink drop applied in these processes?

[@JBJHJM]

@@Brubigo jup that's the question I'm asking myself too. 6 pL applied to a flat surface is different to a volumetric 6 pL drop. As the printhead's main cartridges contain pre-colored material, I'm assuming the printer uses volumetric colored material applied in 6 pL drops and at a layer height of... what did he say? 20 µm... who's willing to get out the calculator and check the actual x/y/z size of a single drop? It's an incredibly high resolution.

[@musicatpurrcussion]

he also said 1x10^-12m at one point and im unsure of that size.. an atom is 1x10^-10m

[@compuholic]

​@@JBJHJM This is piezoelectric inkjet head most probably made by Epson. I've been working with this technology on their 2D printers. Quote: "A piezo inkjet printer is a type of inkjet printer that uses printer heads containing special crystals to which an electric current is applied. This causes the crystals to expand, forcing ink onto a substrate. When the current is removed, the crystal shrinks again, drawing up ink into the printer head." UV lams cure the liquid monomeric "inks" into hard resin on the go as the layer is quite thin.

[@Richard110888]

I have to be honest and say I've become increasingly bored of the slow tech innovation in recent years but WOW this had my gripped throughout. I love the idea of being able to print any colour with just 4 colours to buy instead of having 50 different rolls of filament. The head looks so realistic, in fact everything looks realistic. The little man is my favourite with the textures of clothing and the creases. Just stunning technology

[@rorychivers8769]

This seems like one of those cases where you look at it and think "oh yeah, we should have been doing it this way the whole time" I guess it took a traditional printing company to decide to branch out in order to make it happen

[@Leeki85]

In a way there was no tech innovations since 1970-1995. Just old technology is slowly changing our lives and we're constantly improving things. In recent years we're getting more and more IoT in our lives. Almost every device now can be connected to cloud and controlled via a phone/web browser. However, early adopters might think that everything has slowed down, since there's no new tech to buy before everyone else or new tech is just doing same thing as old tech but in different better way like heat pumps.

[@kurtweihs4665]

@@Leeki85 change is either evolutionary or revolutionary. Revolutionary requires lots of evolutionary steps before the ‘dam’ breaks.

[@slowazzd2165]

the worlds been going through a massive pandemic and most researchers and engineers have bigger things to worry about than making new gimmicky stuff for you to be entertained by

[@rychei5393]

OMG, I am floored and so happy to see more of this 3d printing development!. Last time I saw something akin to this was a paper laser printing process. We need more printers that can scan items and the print directly on irregular surfaces.

[@3DPrintingNerd]

It's crazy this came from 2D printing processes. They just thought, we can print in 2D, now we just need layers.

[@trzarector]

This is the destination I've wanted! My mind just explodes with the possibilities!

[@grantdeisig1360]

That's amazing. The level of detail and color is simply phenomenal.

[@hargert]

I want a home user cost version along these lines SO badly. Cant wait for this type of tech to become cheaper.

[@I.no.ah.guy57]

Wow this is freaking amazing. This is the next level of additive manufacturing 😍👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@3amali1]

As someone who works on cutting edge research of 3D printing I would say this technology has been there for almost 5-10 years and already commercialised. The J750 3D printer has been doing the exact same thing for many years, but I have to say the claim of colour brilliance of Mimaki is certainly like no others. I've seen Mimaki first time almost 4 years ago in CES Shenzhen and was very imrpressed with the way they mamanged to implement their technology. Glad someone gave them a good shout out which they deserve.

[@edwardpaulsen1074]

I love how this technology has expanded over the past few years... I know it has been on the "outskirts" of 3D printing for a while and used in certain high end niche projects and steadily getting better. I would not hold your breath for it getting anywhere near the consumer market like other formats in the near future... maybe in a decade it will get down into the single digit thousands... The tech is available, but it is still a very slow process building up ultrafine layers and even though it is kind of like a flat inkjet, the inks are still hard to work with and need a very controlled environment, plus it is also almost as messy as resin printers. Thank you Joel for giving us a great update into what is possible!

[@TokenTurd]

This is exactly where I want 3D printing to go

[@kohlWinters]

i am as excited to see this as you, this is amazingly cool.

[@txwombat7826]

Looking up the cost - 3DUJ-553 appears to go for about 230k - out of my league - but not as expensive as I was thinking.

[@Rightly_Divided]

I wish I could afford one

[@MihaiDesigns]

Top prints at the formnext show! Blows my mind 🤯

[@aeonjoey3d]

We were in talks with Mimaki at my last company to buy a machine. they treated us like GARBAGE. We met up with them at their own offices in Carson, there were 2 other customers there getting demos. they wouldn't answer any of our questions. my associate and I came with the intention to BUY, but some other customer was far far more important than us, as all of the very snarky sales people were only focused on what was happening with the other group of people. We asked if we could touch some of the star trek online custom prints because we were goign to do a similar on-demand service and might want to get multiple machines and we were told we couldn't handle them but that the person would hold it for us. when the other group came by (we think they were from mazda) they gave them the samples to take with them - right in front of us. mind you they didn't tell us the samples were earmarked for the larger client, they told us 'you can't touch these, only i can'. we never understood what made 4 different people including their mgr both invite us during an 'open house' and ignore us, and then not want to take OUR ORDER. oh well, their loss.

[@diy_wizard]

Wow this is just on another level! And i Mean the principle to print color onto the layers is so genius and easy!

[@ChaosCanyon]

Holy crap! This is incredible! I can’t believe that building and everything in it was printed in one go. Amazing

[@DiegoDevPro]

Wow!!! Just amazing!!!

[@evansampson7325]

I'm pretty sure that at around 4:00 be says picoliters (trillionth of a liter and measurement of volume) and not picometres (a measurement of distance).

[@Jbot123]

How much ink do you expect it would take to print a picometer sized dot?

[@oljobo]

Yes I noticed too! I just thought it was just such a tiny little mistake, I didn't mention it 😂😂🤣

[@phizc]

@@Jbot123 a lot less than a picoliter. If my mental math is up to scratch, a picoliter would fit in 100x100x100 micrometers.. 1x1x1 pm would be 1e-36 liters I think.. so 1 trillion trillion of those in a picoliter..

[@evansampson7325]

@@Jbot123 I couldn't even guess since a picometer is a measure of distance and not a measure of area.😇

[@Jbot123]

@@evansampson7325 But when you are talking about printed dots, the width of said dot is often used to relate it's size. And besides that, he was specifically talking about the size of the droplet.

[@PtiteNeurone]

WOW. This is insane ! I wonder how much time it takes to print the shoe for example. Small precision : he said 6 pL = 6e-12 L = 6e-6 mm3 = 6e-6 (1e3 um)^3 = 6000 um3 which is a voxel or droplet of around 18um in each dimension. Picometers indeed measure atomic structures for example the "diameter" of a water molecule is around 250pm in other words you can align 5 water molecules in 1nm.

[@WallyMahar]

Holy cow you're end credits are amazing! I'm not much for opening credits but I'd watch that again definitely should lead with a few seconds of that sir!

[@3DPrintingNerd]

SO GLAD you saw that!

[@brutongaster8184]

That is incredible and beautiful. I'm so glad it exists. Thanks for making this video

[@SenorRu]

The parts with transparent material look awesome. I wonder if they can do gradients with it, so you could have volumetric fog/smoke effects.

[@3DPrintingNerd]

Ooh, that would be cool!

[@testboga5991]

Suuuper cool! What a time to be alive.

[@ryandowney8743]

That is really cool. It reminds me of years ago there were 3D printers that did layers of paper which could be color printed and got similar results as that.

[@brianlink391]

How did no one think of this sooner? great Idea!

[@raynlaze1339]

Now we have to wait 10 years or more before we get a consumer payable version. Can't wait!

[@pyalot]

20 years until the patents expire and another 5 years for a maker to iron out the kinks.

[@Barnaclebeard]

Not sure what Joe consumer needs with this or most 3d printing technologies. I'd rather have access to a print shop I can send jobs to than have to maintain this sort of nonsense.

[@pyalot]

@@Barnaclebeard do you have a 3D printer?

[@mattdicke3414]

Game changing. Every time a think 3d printing has hit a plateau bam! something amazing like this drops, with dissolvable supports. Obviously not for consumers yet but I am curious the times it takes to print these models and the cost of the printer. Thanks for sharing this company. Pretty amazing prints.

[@Gusmed007]

This is just brilliant, man. As an FDM guy, I’ve always looked at resin printing with interest, but this is on a whole other level. Hope someday it’ll be available for the regular consumer.

[@shanemeyer9224]

Wow now thats so crazy, I can't begin to imagine the amazing applications for this, from large corporations to little small home printers if it ever become cheap enough and/or small enough

[@Waffles_Syrup]

I'm curious how well the prints keep the colors with wear/uv-light/etc.

[@FaTeDev_com]

Given their background I'd assume pretty well but even if not then the technology itself is a stepping stone to bigger and better later down the line anyway.

[@hambaallah1948]

Checkout 2d printing of uv ink. It work same.

[@LincolnWorld]

Wow! I'd love access to a printer like that. I've done many full color 3D prints using other tech on offer at 3D printing services, but none even come close to that quality. Incredible. Hi-5!

[@JoshFryer]

Y'all, this s*** is crazy! Love that someone is doing this now. SUPER cool!

[@marsrover001]

Absolutely crazy how good those prints are. I do notice he says it's "not fast", but I wish we knew exactly how slow.

[@oljobo]

And… "not cheap" either… I wish we could know… etc 😊

[@thingswelike]

@@oljobo £35,000 for the Mimaki 3DUJ-2207 which has a volume of 203mm x 203mm x 70mm

[@oljobo]

@@thingswelike Thanks 👍. You know if there is any place one can order a sample… or order a print from a simple model?

[@Davide-il3ou]

@@oljobo i can do it for you, the only problem is that I’m from Italy. I bought the small version (the 2207) last July for my 3d service, and it’s an incredible 3d printer. What I can also tell you is that the price of the resin it’s very high and unless you use a particular software call materialise magic that cost 200$ a month for the light version, you must print all the piece completely solid inside, and that greatly increase the price.

[@oljobo]

@@Davide-il3ou Thank You for answering 🙏. Yeah I guessed this would be (very) expensive. I was just so positively surprised to see such a technology, I just immediately felt like •having• a small printed piece 😊. I can live without, no problem 👍. Being from Italy is a plus btw 🇮🇹👍😊. Best regards from Norway 🇳🇴☺️

[@bw5187]

great for prototyping and unique pieces

[@AmaroqStarwind]

Mimaki should consider expanding the color palette with the inclusion of additional inks, kinda like how some color inkjet/laser printers use dedicated green or orange inks. Perhaps even metallic and/or fluorescent inks!

[@TIPh0enix]

I've been in the printing industry for a while now and we've always trusted Mimaki for our large format printers. My rep showed me this 3D printer a long time ago and I was wondering why the industry weren't picking up on this. It was so cool. I'm really glad it's getting the attention it deserves now.

[@BV3D]

10,000,000 colors? Bah! "64K colors ought to be enough for anyone." -- Gill Bates, maybe. 😉

[@JonS]

Yeah, Bill Gates never said 640K is enough. It’s a myth.

[@BV3D]

@@JonS I was quoting Gill Bates an early pioneer of digital color. Also, the previous sentence is a complete fabrication. 😁

[@Nossieuk]

@@BV3D thought - older graphics cards could show 16 million colours, not sure what it's at now - any guesses where they lost the 6 million?

[@Nossieuk]

also to correct myself as I hate this - shades not Colours, shades of colours - and yes, you are spelling colour wrong :P

[@BV3D]

@@Nossieuk I spell a lot of things wrong. 😅

[@adamwood3365]

Wow! This is a leap forward, love it!

[@connormccarter9581]

I thought this might be possible but its more "Hang on, I am still trying to put my brain back in..." This is really the next thing! Thanks Joel!

[@3DPrintingNerd]

Thank YOU for spending a few minutes here!

[@papercrowe8772]

That is absolutely incredible! I have never seen a more impressive 3D printer. Imagine cosplay or mini figures, but all the textures are already lifelike the moment they come off the printer!

[@Martial-Mat]

This is the way that 3D printing always should go. Can't wait to see this at consumer prices.

[@photelegy]

Me: That's never gonna happen to be payable. Also me remembering how expensive the first computers, printers, ... where 🤔 And how cheap they got over time 😍

[@Martial-Mat]

@@photelegy 😄 100% I just hope it happens sooner rather than later. I give it 5-10 years before this is affordable to consumers and fast enough to be viable.

[@Hanzi2u]

20 years and we are at consumer price

[@Martial-Mat]

@@Hanzi2u No way! MUCH sooner. Look how fast colour printing has become affordable. In 20 years it will be superfast, higher quality and available for $1500.

[@Hanzi2u]

@@Martial-Mat you should also take into account what people think consumer price is, it varies, and things are more getting more and expensive as times goes on

[@RevUnstableBoy]

Out of all the new 3d printing tech out there, this is the most exciting full color super fine resolution 3d prints, when this matures to the point it is in the hands of consumers, it is going to be awesome.

[@shawnmichaelis1609]

Will this tech ever become as consumer based as traditional printers and 3d printers? Like I’m 10 years will there be a version I could buy for $200 like an ender3 today

[@avastorneretal]

Finally, we can 3d print warhammer miniatures and already painted.

[@chrisryan3445]

The combination of traditional 2D inkjet, 3D (though I am not sure if it is SLA or FDM - assuming SLA from the scale of the stuff) with a UV pass to cure the layers is incredible. It's just like how games render graphics - polygon models with textures mapped over the outside. Wow!

[@jimbarchuk]

Look at the sample with the 3 prints mounted on a base. It's FDM of the white 'interior,' inkjet on the shell layer, and wrapped with dissolvable support. It scales down to the furniture pieces because the inkjet layer is 6 picoliter dots, thus 10M colors within human resolution.

[@cryofpaine]

@@jimbarchuk it would be a mix of both. It's a UV cured resin, not an extruded plastic, so in that regard it uses SLA. But it deposits the resin like an FDM printer does, rather than selectively curing portions of a layer of resin like typical SLA.

[@iheartninja]

@@cryofpaine So this technology basically works with bitmaps. Each pixel is a droplet of a specific color. the machine will lay down a layer of droplets, then a spinning metal cylinder passes over it, essentially "squishing" the droplet just as the UV lamp passes over it to create a flat cured layer. Then it moves to the next bitmap in the sequence and repeats. You can have multiple print heads dedicated to different colors as well as support materials. With Stratasys' version of Polyjet printers it is also possible to create different synthesized materials and textures by mixing resins, such as rubbery material or even fabrics.

[@0x1EGEN]

@@iheartninja In the printing world it's referred to as dots rather than pixels/bitmaps (hence DPI). This is because it takes multiple "dots" to actually build up a single pixel of an image.

[@BurgundyTint]

Absolutely amazing!

[@samualwilliamson1187]

Whaaaat?!

[@tcf70tyrannosapiensbonsai]

Wow! That is, what I was waiting for the last thirty years! The quality of the objects, the printer's capable of, are bejond my greatest expectation!

[@hilikliming]

Ngl this is mind blowing. Incredible tech and great presentation of the capabilities from the rep. Thanks for the upload Joel!

[@dutchvantassell3147]

Absolutely love it, this is amazing!

[@thenextlayer]

can't believe I missed this, thanks for covering!

[@3DPrintingNerd]

It's SO EASY to miss so much at Formnext. 4 HALLS OF STUFF. I'm glad you got the chance to see it here.

[@joshbeaulieu7408]

Wow, that is phenomenal!

[@K3NnY_G]

I run a Mimaki UV large format printer at my work, we have another with a raisable bed, we actually basically 3d print laying layers and layers of the exact resin he's speaking of here. minus the ability for the fancy washable supports; We've even taken our waste ink or expired material and dumped it in a resin printer, cured it with UV, worked okay. The machines these guys produce and the print heads they make are insanely cool, they're amazing machines. Their service team over here in North America, lacking in my experience..

[@MrNatural451]

I am blown freakin' away! Brilliant!

[@timbell6144]

Thanks for sharing! it was one of my favorite machines at Formnext!

[@ytfan3815]

Arjen is Dutch, in the Netherlands is a company called Shapeways that's doing this for years, 3D Full color printing, nowadays there Head Office is in the USA.

[@dvl973]

It's funny, I used to print on a regular Mimaki large format printerat work, and the bottles and the machine looks almost the same as 2D version it's just a bit bigger and of course the print area is completely different, but I can see how they came up with this idea, the ink from Mimaki UV printer is just super tough and hard as nails. This makes a lot of sense and the result is phenomenal. Although I can imagine the maintenance is a pain in the butt

[@clemski58]

So great to see such talented people doing beautiful work. Thanks so much.

[@MarioIArguello]

About 20 years ago while I was trying to find options to rapid manufacturing, outside the typical CNC machining, some fine tooth and super lightweight gears, for my palm size helicopters, and looking at high power lasers and some new 3D printer developments, I met a gent who was operating a lazer cutting business and who suggested I ltalk to a professor at a nearby university who was developing 3d printing technologies. At the time, one of the machines, a modified ink jet printer, was set up to print in color using white flour and ink jet ink sort of deposition, sintering, a similar proces to what this video shows, but it was very slow and the parts had to be dipped in CA after the build process to mantain some level of durability. The texture was rather grainy and the color although vivid was rather matte finish. Seeing this potential, back them and coming from operating one of the first SLA machines back in 92, this process stood in mind, as the way to print 3d models in colors, just makes perfect sense, lay the material in white, then color it as you apply ink on paper as on typical ink jets. The machine in this video is very similar to that early prototype I saw, in fact the texture and color saturation is very reminiscent to the the ink with flour machine, but highly refined. I have been looking forward to seeing an in jet like printer that can print 3d models in high resolution and color. Now, perhaps it is just a matter of targeting the market with a cost effective desktop machine for the average consumer. Great intro to a technology that has been simmering for a while now.

[@lokiwartooth1138]

This is soooooo awesome I need this at home and metal printing and I’m golden

[@fangsupply]

This is completely mindblowing! Can’t believe how diverse 3D printing is becoming!

[@Barkley1835]

That is a revolutionary innovation. Having to print models with insane details and painted at the same time is truly remarkable. Also, the new outro is really good. It's really impressive that the smoke cg interacts with the real models. The smoke travels like a proper fluid and creates shadows as it wraps around the models. The effect is really close to being natural. Great content as usual!

[@edwardpaulsen1074]

That's because it is not CG but ink being injected underwater, so it will flow and interact with the models... even so, it is very tough to get it to do that so nicely and if you don't get the shot, you have to drain, refill, reset up the injectors and try again... Smarter Every day took about a week to get vortex ring collision swirls *just right*...

[@garym7771]

amazing tech, thank you for presenting all of this to all of us out here!

[@Aikano9]

Holy shit. This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in forever.

[@nachoijp]

They tackled two things I never liked about 3D printing: color and layers. Everything is so smooth! Can't wait for this to become more commercially available

[@Nightbeat26]

That is the most impressive 3D printing tech I've seen since the birth of 3D printing

[@Logan-py2dd]

This is so amazing. The whole video I was just think over and over about how cool this is. I can’t wait for what future technology’s there will be in 3D printing in my lifespan. And thank you so much for sharing this amazing technology.

[@IronLungProductionsOfficial]

I had my first experience with a 3d Printer Early in high school, I bought one just a few weeks ago and have been loving it!, Awesome Video!

[@MrDTManning]

Amazing! So glad I saw this. Now I need to find a reason to get something printed by one of them. So wicked!

[@ProbablySteven]

It's pretty staggering how precise the tolerances are to have a machine drop four colours of ink, plus whatever other chemicals are involved, with microscopic accuracy, from a print carriage that just whips back and forth thousands of times. I've used a few large format commercial (2D) printers like the kind Mimaki are known for, and even those are impressive. But doing it in 3D is just nuts.

[@greymatter33]

This is the greatest, most impressive and much needed 3D printing technology I've ever seen!!

[@Syrsly]

I saw this video when it came out on a TV so I didn't follow (that's a hassle on the TV especially when you're not signed in), but I found you again in Mingda recommendations. Nice to find my way back. Nice channel.

[@KirillPoezdnik]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

[@hansonprofile]

This is absolutely incredible. This changes the entire game of prototyping and product development. So many steps condensed into one action.

[@markchristy9704]

This is amazing! I love watching innovation like this take shape. Thanks for sharing, Joel!

[@jerryvdv3450]

Best piece from Formnext in terms of tech, mind blowing stuff.

[@pirobot668beta]

Dye-sublimation gives vibrant, well saturated color. So, make a dye-sub chamber, pass filament through chamber where it picks up some amount of dye prior to printing. Separate chambers for each dye, of course, to allow better color control. This all assumes one of them fancy 'mixing nozzles' made from a Volcano nozzle and fine copper wire to blend the colors. High-end photo-printing uses dye-sublimation to great effect.

[@clarkkent7973]

Has any 3D printing service like Shapeways purchased this printer in the US?

[@tiklyspade5065]

This is honestly so impressive, very excellent job Mimaki

[@melskunk]

I love that they came from this from the side of printing house stuff and developed organically into making these prints, it really shows how we needed someone coming from outside the industry to shake things up on what could be possible

[@nathanp3366]

Davinci XYZ did this exactly years ago. I had one in a lab at work but it was terrible. It did not use resin, it tried to use white PLA and inkjet on the layers. The PLA was awful and the ink was always dried out. But they did have the idea a long time ago.

[@DavijoBoy]

Somebody wake me up when this becomes affordable and consumer level! As a 3D Artist who can't paint traditionally, this is my dream and I've been waiting for to jump into 3D printing...the day I can print my characters in full colour and stick them on my shelf for display will be glorious!

[@pauldeddens5349]

Honestly, the most incredible thing to me is the fact that it prints in one go. Struts? Wash away. Layering? Nonexistent. Colors? Beyond impressive.

[@buildersmark]

Just mind blowing, literally mind blowing!

[@Infernoblade1010]

The level of detail is absolutely insane!!!!!

[@JustPlainRob]

15 years ago my makerspace had a similar kind of printer. It was a combination of a sintering plastic printer and an inkjet. Nowhere near this resolution, the models were fragile and had to be baked after printing to fully cure, but it used inkjet cartridges and the 'ink' liquid to fuse the plastic powder which was then heat-cured into a more solid mass. This looks way more impressive, but it probably costs more than all my 3D Printers and laser cutters combined.

[@robinbinder8658]

the quality is straight up insaaaane wtf

[@leomorris1773]

My jaw about hit the floor when I saw it could do the transparent printing. that is actually insane. I don't think we will see tech this is the consumer space for a long time, if ever, but knowing its out there is just so crazy.

[@Vez3D]

thats crazy cool !!! thanks for sharing Joel !!

[@3DPrintingNerd]

HEY! Thanks for watching!

[@Vez3D]

@@3DPrintingNerd i watch all your stuff mate :)