{"id":41685,"date":"2021-05-26T09:05:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/?p=41685"},"modified":"2024-12-02T05:32:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T10:32:47","slug":"mimaki-makes-3d-printing-exciting-with-robust-technology-vibrant-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/mimaki-makes-3d-printing-exciting-with-robust-technology-vibrant-colors","title":{"rendered":"Mimaki Makes 3D Printing Exciting with Robust Technology & Vibrant Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Mimaki
Credit: Ten 24 Digital Capture <\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Imagination goes hand in hand with 3D printing, as does accelerated growth in product development on the epic level, and especially in industrial manufacturing. Companies like Mimaki, however, also really know how to bring on the excitement. Their name is synonymous with powerful, quality printing accompanied by vibrant colors\u2014and 3D printing in ten million<\/em> colors<\/a> to be exact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mimaki, Quite Simply,\nKnows What They Are Doing<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For\nover 25 years, Mimaki has specialized in full color inkjet printing. They hold\nnumerous patents, maintain a large presence in signage and graphics, industrial\nprinting, and textile printing too. In 2017, the Japanese company entered the\n3D printing industry\u2014and they weren\u2019t exactly low-key about it. After all, no\none else has come even close to offering such exciting, and vast, options in\ncolor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undeniably, Mimaki has made a solid arrival into the 3D printing market. They aren\u2019t new to industrial printing, and they aren\u2019t still working out the kinks on customers either. Josh Hope, Senior Manager for Digital Imaging and Innovation at Mimaki, is clear about what makes Mimaki different:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re\ncoming at it from a very different perspective, and that perspective is that we\nhave many many years of experience in how to reproduce color accurately, how to\nmanage that color, and how to provide a workflow that allows for the most\naccurate reproduction of color possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Credit: ODD Guitars \u2013 Olaf Diegel <\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

There\nare already so many different elements, techniques, and players within the\nindustry that it is impossible to keep track; however, companies like Mimaki\ndidn\u2019t just pop up out of nowhere. Even after so many years in the printing\nindustry, their vision continues to be \u2018something new, something different,\u2019\ndemonstrating the power of a company that knows how to make solid promises\u2014and\nlive up to them fully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COVID-19 Isolation\nBrought New Interest\u2014Especially from Tabletop Gamers<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

With\nthe insurgence of COVID, millions of people have been home, bringing greater\ndemand and more time for purchasing and customizing gaming miniatures and other\ntypes of game-related prints. With the resurgence of role-playing games (RPGs)\nat the tabletop, more players than ever have been \u2018getting together,\u2019 often\nthrough live streaming online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For\nthe gaming community over the past year, what some people considered challenges\nin being stuck at home turned into an idyllic situation where it really wasn\u2019t\nall that hard to entertain or distract themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Credit: Dope Pope <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople\nwere really diving deeper into 3D printing technology,\u201d said Hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this time, Mimaki and Shapeways were solidifying their partnership too, with Shapeways releasing High Definition Full Color<\/a> and marketing to consumers and businesses engaged in applications like gaming<\/a>, medicine<\/a>, architecture<\/a>, education<\/a>, and more. Hope stresses that the point really is to get 3D prints into the hands of people and companies who cannot afford to invest in a commercial Mimaki 3D printer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while there is other powerful, comparable technology out there, the multi-color factor causes Mimaki prints to stand apart\u2014along with the robustness of the technology\u2014and the company itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Enjoy the benefits of this advanced technology and a wide range of materials from Shapeways for 3D printing your creations with accuracy, complex detail, and no minimum or limits in terms of mass customization or single part orders. Shapeways has worked with over 1 million customers in 160 countries to 3D print over 20 million parts! Read about<\/em> case studies<\/em><\/a>, find out more about Shapeways<\/em> solutions<\/em><\/a>, and get instant quotes<\/em> here<\/em><\/a>.  <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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