Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), develop a color 3D printer, or at least that's what an invention patent published in the past few days suggests to us by the American authorities, this type of product being in a continuous increase in popularity.
Unlike the existing color 3D printers, the product developed by the Apple company is much cheaper and could be bought by many more people, this being the thinking based on which Steve Jobs launched the first Mac and was so successful.
At the moment, professional color 3D printers have purchase prices close to those of cheap machines, so the idea proposed by the Apple company through this patent could revolutionize this industry, if the product is actually launched.
Regarding the technology for creating 3D models, the Apple company describes some important changes regarding the way in which 3D models are effectively created and colored, the differences from a technological point of view also allowing the substantial reduction of production costs.
An apparatus comprising: a platform for holding a 3D printable object during a 3D printing process; a 3D print head for moving in cooperation with the platform in order to deposit 3D printable material according to a 3D information file that describes the 3D printable object in three dimensions; and a color application head for moving in cooperation with the 3D print head and the platform and for applying color to a surface of the 3D printable object.
Although Apple's idea of bringing color 3D printers to the whole world at low prices is great, the problem is that no one knows when or if this product will actually be launched, so we can only see what the people of Cupertino.
What do you think about the possibility of Apple launching a color 3D printer considering that Apple has launched printers in the past that were not successful.
