The Polish 3D printing scene is getting vibrant. Poland has a strong industrial background so the new personal 3D printer manufacturers find fertile ground to express their ideas and a wide selection of capable engineers to work with. One of these companies is Pirx3D, based in Kracow, and it intends to take desktop extrusion based 3D printing to a new level of possibilities by introducing a full colour system.
It does not seem to be an empty promise either. The system on display at London’s 3D Printshow was still an early prototype but it was already able to form different colour products. The team is certain that their new 3D printer will be able to render designs in a full colour RGB palette, which is good news with the recent major opening by Adobe to the 3D world.
The Pirx team is solid and diverse. Most of all they are not afraid to dream big: their stated objective is to one day build a Molecular Assembler. The name is complex, although it is a dream shared by many who got involved in 3D printing as molecular assembly is the process used by the fictional Star Trek replicator to produce anything, and 3D desktop printers can but be considered among the early (very early) ancestors of such a machine.
Getting back to Earth, Pirx3D has gained experience by producing an open source 3D printer now retailing for €599 and deliverable in 7 days. Needless to say, full colour FFF would be yet another revolution in desktop 3D printing. Skeptics on its actual “do-ability” abound but that is the case for just about any potentially disruptive invention: and those who work in 3D printing know, or at least should know, only too well that anything can happen.
