The method they developed has so far only been shown in a laboratory setting, but it could have potential applications for creating new types of sensors, biomedical applications, or other uses ...

Color continues to be a hot topic in the printing industry, with many print service providers (PSPs) constantly on the hunt for resources and tools to improve consistency and increase gamut. In ...

April 1, 2016 Commercial Printers on Color Matching Jobs with Digital, Inkjet and Offset Printing Methods By Erik Cagle ...

"Unlike the printing process of an inkjet or laserjet printer, where mixed color pigments are used, there is no color ink used in our structural printing process -- only different hole sizes on a ...

In a leap forward for materials science, a multi-institutional team of researchers has developed a pioneering method of 3D printing cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs), enabling complex, ...

The full-color Eiffel Tower demonstrated the ability to print arbitrary and complex 3D color objects at the microscale level using the "coloring-by-shrinking" method.

Secondly, the color fades automatically after about 5 days, meaning that this method can't be used to print permanently. However, this technology might still be useful in a few industries, like ...