Pixar Studios 3D Printer Tour

Pop17 has visited Pixar Studios and give us an overview of Pixar 3D printing technology used to create models of the characters we see in the film : the Z Corp printer. The Z Corp equipment creates the characters in full color. The 3D printer that made this model uses inkjets very similar to the ones in commercial printers and sprays the ink onto an off white surface that is similar to plaster.

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