New Technology Briefing: Digital printing

Digital Printing of Digital Materials

We present a printer that builds functional three-dimensional structures by reversible assembly of a discrete set of components, “digital materials”. This approach uses the components rather than a control system to impose the spatial and functional constraints. Printing can be performed as a parallel rather than a linear process. The printing process is reversible for re-use of the pieces or f...

Digital materials for digital printing

Conventional three-dimensional printing processes are material-dependent, and are irreversible. We present an alternative approach based on three-dimensional assembly of mass-produced two-dimensional components of digital material. This significantly enlarges the available material set, allows reversible disassembly, and imposes constraints that reduce the accumulation of local positioning erro...

Digital Printing for Artists

Artists have different parameters to, for example, colour scientists, for considering the quality of the finished image. An analysis of the work is based on an artist's conception of the work and a subjective assessment of print surface, colour and image quality, which although may appear to be based on the same criteria as a reproduction, the impact on the viewer is quite different. This prese...

Inkjet Printing Technology

To support color and high printing quality of a printer, we developed a piezoelectric type inkjet print head. In this system we adopted piezoelectric share mode, which is superb in ink drop control and can be applied to many fields.

Three-dimensional printing technology.