MakerBot Industries at CES its new affordable 3d printer ge lwa site. The Replicator can be in contrast to its predecessor objects in two-color printing. Also those objects are larger than before.
Last year demonstrated MakerBot are Thing-o-matic at CES and this year was the introduction of its successor, the Replicator, the place. The new device can make objects with more precision printing, and there is now also a version in two colors can print. The material used is abs plastic, that MakerBot, in coils in 55 different colours can deliver for about $ 45 per roll. The manufacturer also supplies biodegradable material based on corn. The maximum size of a 3d print out of the Replicator is 22×14,4×14,9cm, with the Thing-o-matic was 12,7×12,7×15,2cm.
The base material is heated and then the Replicator object in the layers build up. By sanding the laminated surface to be smoothed. The objects can be loaded as stl-file, which CAD-software is used and, for example, by Google Sketch-Up can be exported. The loading takes place via the usb port or via an sd card reader. The Replicator runs on ReplicatorG software, a opensourceprogramma for Windows, Mac and Linux.
The cheapest version of the Replicator is 1799 dollars, but that can be in only one color printing. The version with support for two colors cost 1999 dollars. MakerBot delivers the systems ready and expected within six weeks of the first devices to customers have sent.