It seemed inappropriate to include this iMakr news along with the announcement that iMakr/MyMiniFactory would be taking part in a campaign to end global suffering, so here it is getting its own post! iMakr, the world’s largest 3D printing retail brick-n-mortar, continues to expand its 3D printing wares. Most recently, the company has begun selling the Freeform Pico and Freeform Pico Plus 3D printers from Asiga.
Asiga’s Freeform Pico 3D printers rely on digital light processing, which can produce some stunningly high resolution prints. The printers can get layer heights down to 27 microns thin with an XY resolution of 39 microns. The Pico, with a price tag of £5,190 (about $8700), has a build volume of 30 x 40 x 76mm (roughly 1.1” x 1.6” x 3”). Its big sibling, the Pico Plus, costs £6 650 (about $11,200) with a slightly larger print volume of 50 × 31.2 × 76 mm* (2” x 1.2” x 3”). Such machines have been billed as ideal for investment casting for metal jewellery, dental pieces, and figurines. The DLP printers, iMakr’s first, are a sign that the company will expand its line from more common desktop FFF/FDM 3D printers to include a wider variety of print processes.
While the world’s largest 3D printing retail brick-n-mortar does its part to improve the world with Oxfam, it has also added a new high-resolution 3D printer to its inventory. See how terrible that transition would have been?
Source: iMakr
