One of the leading brands of desktop printers, Zortrax announced receiving its printing bed-levelling technology’s patent. Drawing attention with R&D projects as well 3D printer sales, the company aims to protect its technologies.
Known with its affordable printers developed for personal use, Poland based Zortrax supports the market with technological innovations as well. Creating a device enabling printing bed-levelling, the firm took the patent this technology.
The system in question revolves around the idea of automatic print surface levelling accomplished by automatically and precisely measuring 3-base points on the platform with an electrical sensor connected to the 3D printers extrusion nozzle. Zortrax president Rafal Tomasiak notes that most desktop 3D printers on the market today rely on self-levelling methods and that calibration errors using this approach can lead to machine damage and poor quality prints.
As Zortrax CEO Rafal Tomasiak stated; “The biggest advantage of the invention patented by Zortrax is the ability to very accurately calibrate the working of printers, this also reduces the risk of tearing the print platform. The patented system is already used in the M200 series of 3D printers and will also be implemented in future models of 3D printers, Zortrax is working on.”