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The first food-safe 3D printer capable of printing sweets is shown off at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas
They are the ChefJet and the Chef JetPro. The ChefJet is a monochrome counter top version that can print in chocolate and sugar and candy in a variety of different flavours.
Ms Von Hasseln explains the technolgy inside the printer: "This is colour jet printing technology which means that it uses an ink jet print head. So basically it spreads a very fine layer of sugar and it uses an inkjet print head that's just like the one that you would find in your desktop 2D printer to paint water onto the surface of the sugar, and that water allows the sugar to recrystalize and harden and it forms these complex geometries."
Creating such complex geometric shapes takes some skill, especially when it comes to designing in Computer Aided Design, or "CAD" software.
3D Systems is helping to ease that transition by providing specialist software.
"We're offering what we call the Digital Cookbook with both of these printers and that's designed for the non-CAD user," says Von Hasseln.
"So you might say, 'I want to work on a cake topper or I want to work on a drink sweetener' and the software will start you out with an object that's kind of the appropriate size and shape and you can add complexity from there. So you can generate really complex items that are printable without actually having to model them."
The ChefJet and the Chef JetPro are expected to cost between 3000 and 6000 when they go on sale.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/ces/10560755/CES-First-3D-printer-to-make-food-revealed.html"
They are the ChefJet and the Chef JetPro. The ChefJet is a monochrome counter top version that can print in chocolate and sugar and candy in a variety of different flavours.
Ms Von Hasseln explains the technolgy inside the printer: "This is colour jet printing technology which means that it uses an ink jet print head. So basically it spreads a very fine layer of sugar and it uses an inkjet print head that's just like the one that you would find in your desktop 2D printer to paint water onto the surface of the sugar, and that water allows the sugar to recrystalize and harden and it forms these complex geometries."
Creating such complex geometric shapes takes some skill, especially when it comes to designing in Computer Aided Design, or "CAD" software.
3D Systems is helping to ease that transition by providing specialist software.
"We're offering what we call the Digital Cookbook with both of these printers and that's designed for the non-CAD user," says Von Hasseln.
"So you might say, 'I want to work on a cake topper or I want to work on a drink sweetener' and the software will start you out with an object that's kind of the appropriate size and shape and you can add complexity from there. So you can generate really complex items that are printable without actually having to model them."
The ChefJet and the Chef JetPro are expected to cost between 3000 and 6000 when they go on sale.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/ces/10560755/CES-First-3D-printer-to-make-food-revealed.html"
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