Last week, during RAPID 2014, we announced the availability of two significant product enhancements from Mcor: ICC colour mapping and automatic file fixing.
What does this mean for you?
ICC colour mapping provides Mcor 3D printers with unprecedented colour accuracy for a truly what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) colour experience. Mcor is the only 3D printer manufacturer to include this capability.
The Mcor IRIS, already the world's most colour-capable 3D printer, is the first and only 3D printer to include an International Color Consortium (ICC) profile. The profile ensures that the 3D printer will precisely produce industry-standard colours as presented in a photographer's, engineer's or designer's photograph, CAD model, scan or illustration. Without the ICC profile, 3D printers translate incoming colours to machine-specific ones, introducing unintended changes in the 3D printed colour along the way.
Dr. Conor MacCormack, co-founder and CEO of Mcor Technologies said, "Ask any creative or marketing professional: accurate colour matters. That's why standards exist, and why we are the first 3D printer manufacturer to embrace them. A gram is a gram and a meter is a meter anywhere on the planet because of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. Likewise, a company's logo will be the same colour on the computer screen as on a model 3D printed by the Mcor IRIS because of our ICC profile."
The ICC is an international organisation for colour management, and the Mcor ICC profile is calibrated to device-independent Commission Internationale de L'Eclairage, International Commission on Illumination, (CIE) colours. The CIE is a standardised, globally recognised reference for display, input and output devices.
"Any printer without a standard-based colour profile is likely to produce 'off colours,'" MacCormack said. "Printing without it is like painting your living room without a swatch from the manufacturer. We're the only 3D printer manufacturer that has one."
Automatic file fixing solves a problem that has dogged the CAD industry for years and has helped us achieve our goal of a one-click solution that makes any STL file geometrically printable.
The new automated file-fixing software, included with every Mcor 3D printer, removes unseen geometries that can complicate 3D printing of sophisticated models. This enhances user experience and for the first time makes design files ready to print as they're received.
The updates are embedded in our latest version of Mcor SliceIT software.
In addition, we unveiled Mcor FLEX, a new finishing option for the IRIS and Matrix which provides flexible 3D printed models that are water resistant while remaining low cost and durable. Because the paper is 70% porous, it acts like a scaffold for the infiltrant, enabling it to take on the properties of that infiltrant material. Flexible 3D printed model properties are achieved with Mcor FLEX by quickly and easily treating 3D printed models produced on Mcor IRIS and Matrix 3D printers with Mcor's specially formulated water-based PVA coating.
We also announced Mcor's continued extraordinary annual growth, securing a new infusion of a total round of $12m in growth capital for Mcor led by investment firm WHEB and reporting increases of 308% in sales and 227% in channel.
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