The existing cutting plotter could not cut rubber with thickness and hardness precisely. The area of the processing table was also small, and they wanted to increase the production efficiency. Since large products need to be made in sections and the labor of bonding occurs after cutting, they wanted to reduce the cost by processing them as a single piece.

Because CFX has a high cutting pressure and a large processing table, high-quality rubber products can now be mass-produced. Large materials can be cut only once, reducing the number of bonding steps. The processing speed is also fast so that they can handle urgent cases with plenty of time. Now that the company has more work to do, it can develop new businesses.

Printing on special materials and expensive materials with restrictions on materials and shapes involved time and risk in preparing jigs and printing from trial manufacture to actual production, and it was difficult to propose sales.

The introduction of a UV-DTF printer eliminates the need for jigs and allows a wide range of materials to be handled, reducing the time required for trial manufacture. The transfer sheet method has a high degree of freedom and contributes to shortening delivery times and winning new projects. The understanding of the sales field has advanced, and the ability to respond to not only order goods but also signature related matters has been greatly improved.

In addition to output by 3D printer, post-processing such as polishing and coloring was time-consuming. Also, the hue were not very good and sometimes the finished product was not as desired.

The size of the output at a time was increased, greatly reducing labor and time. Output could be done at a level that did not require post-processing such as scraping off and polishing. In addition, coloring work is no longer necessary and colors can be expressed as they are in the 3D data, expanding the range of applications and making it possible to realize a variety of offers.

In the design and development of new products for footwear brands, it took more than a month from the time the order was placed to the time the prototypes were received. Also, it was taking time for the design idea to take shape and be put in the hands of the designer.

With the 3DUJ-553, a 3D design model of a shoe can be printed in one to two days, significantly shortening the time required to create a prototype, which normally takes more than one month. In addition, the process from design modification to prototype production can be repeated more times in a short period, leading to better product creation.

The business of the German start-up company Fansea is based on 3D asset creation, web3 and metaverse consultancy. Fansea was searching for a technology to bridge the gap between the virtual and physical by offering their customers photorealistic, 3D copies of their digital assets.

3DUJ-553 can accurately bring the individual qualities of each item directly from the screen to the model. 3D printing has the potential to revolutionise the digital space.

Low color accuracy, fragile parts, and time intensive post processing produced less than desirable results with powder based full-color 3D printing.

The full-color 3DUJ-553 creates robust anatomical models with realistic color reproduction that are easy to post process.

When necessary, the Creative Design and Additive Manufacturing Lab at the University of Auckland added color to 3D prints by hand due to the lack of vibrant colors and affordability in full-color 3D printers.

The Mimaki 3DUJ-553 full-color 3D printer now allows the Lab to print in 10-million colors at a running cost affordable to the university.

I started my 3D business with monochromatic 3D printers, but was struggling to keep up with demand due to the amount of post processing involved to add color. We examined a powder based full-color 3D printer, but found that the material was too fragile and the color faded within one year, so we decided it wasn't the right option for us.

The introduction of 3DUJ-553 eliminated the need for manual coloring work and made it possible to create molded objects in a short time with materials that had rich color expression.

We were looking for 3D printers capable of outputting high definition 3D data created in the office for use in explaining construction processes to our clients.

The model prototypes were extremely popular and we successfully landed requests for proposals. As 3D printers can reproduce models cheaply in diverse scales, they are better than outsourcing hand-crafted models, and we are confident they will become indispensable as effective business tools.

Although the company already had a full-color 3D printer, the plaster-based type needed to go through processes that almost required artisan skills such as polishing and re-coloring for modeled objects before they become products.

3DUJ-553 has enabled more than 10-million color representation that is fine in details, in addition to real, delicate expression that needs no re-coloring. As the support material is water-soluble, we can remove it easily by soaking the object in water, which allows us to work on details to the last minute, enabling a wider range of expression than ever before.