3D Printers now available at Sprint-Ink

With CoLiDo, Ultimaker and XYZprinting 3D printers and Filaments we have a wide range of 3D Printers and consumables. 

With 3D printing continuing to grow in popularity, 3D Printers in the home, school and business are on the increase and looking for low cost 3D printers and filaments has become a necessity, to reduce the costs involved.

With some of the biggest brands in the 3D printing world we have everything you need for your 3D printer, we even have service packages that you can optimise to your requirements.

Take a look at our full range here

Three exciting new 3D printing developments from CES 2015

Showcasing leading brands in the consumer electronics industry, this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas provided us with all kinds of exiting printer technology. You’ll be unsurprised to learn that 3D printing was right up there with the best of new gadgets to hit our stores this year.

Sprint-Ink took a look at three exciting new developments in the world of 3D Printing:

Cocojet, a chocolate 3D printer that prints custom 3D designs using dark, milk or white chocolate

With Voxel8's electronics printer we could all be printing our own consumable electronics at home

The XYZprinting 3D Food Printer can print with three different food pastes simultaneously

Read more on the above products here

Print-Rite Launches 3D Printer

Print-Rite launched the CoLiDo desktop 3D printer this month along with ABS/PLA filament for use in 3D printing. Print-Rite stated that it has “demonstrated its leading position in the aftermarket printer consumables industry” by developing the machine.

The company added that the 3D printer “generates a high precision printout by using a proprietary design printhead”, with the machine said to be “extremely user-friendly” with “low noise and a competitive price”. It noted in turn that the machine was developed “in-house”, including the electronic board, firmware and printhead, and is equipped with a “coated glass print table which allows for easy removal of the printed object” after the print has finished.

Look out for the Print-Rite 3D Printer and consumables coming to the Sprint-Ink website

Print your own ‘Mini Me’ while you shop.

Asda will become the first supermarket in the country to offer in-store 3D printing in its stores and it begins trials on October 15.

The supermarket chain said it will be offering the 3d printing service, which can scan anything up to the size of a car and reduce it down to an 8-inch model. The 3d printing service will first be tested at its York store, before being rolled it out more widely if it’s successful.

With prices ranging from £40, shoppers simply need to pop into the store with whatever they want scanned and can then pick up their item as they are doing their shopping the following week, Asda says.

The company envisage one of their top requests will be for customers to have themselves scanned to produce a 8 inch replica. Whether people would want to spend £40 on a ‘mini me’ remains to be seen, but it would be an original sculpture.

Source: http://goo.gl/Ieh5bR

NASA plans first 3D printer space launch in 2014

US space agency NASA is planning to launch a 3D printer into space next year to help astronauts manufacture spare parts and tools in zero gravity.

It will be the first time a 3D printer has been used in space and could help reduce the costs of future missions.

Read More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24329296

3D Printed Casts Could Soon Become A Reality

At last fracture support is brought into the 21st century. Jake Evill, a graduate from the Architecture and Design school at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, has been exploring a new concept that he calls Cortex.

Read More about Cortex on the Sprint-Ink printer ink and toner cartridge blog.

Printed human tissue becomes a reality.

Muscle (green) and nerve (red) cells suspended in the bio-ink

Printed tissue replacements using inkjet printers has took a step closer to becoming a reality! 

For some time scientists have been experimenting with the potential of using inkjet print heads to print 3D structures of living human tissue, but designing the ‘ink’ capable of carrying cells has been a challenge 

A team of scientists led by ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES) have developed a new bio-ink capable of carrying these cells through the printer which improves the viability and allows better control of cell position through the printing process.

"These advances in biofabrication provide a platform to address diseases previously thought 'unstumpable'—soon we can watch them walk the walk," Professor Wallace of ACES said.