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The medical industry increasingly generates 3D patient data with MRI, CT and ultrasound equipment. Dutch software company PS-Medtech specialises in the 3D visualisation of these scans of the human body by means of their own imaging software Vesalius3D. The company teamed up with Mimaki to print the images their software generates in full colour. The results are astonishing.

Mimaki has long been at the forefront of print technology when it comes to hardware, having a heritage that dates back to the 1970’s, but its breadth and pedigree of inks is well worthy of discussion as Mimaki continues to pioneer the way with new ink types and special effects. A company that is never at rest, Mimaki is continuously developing new technologies in inks, hardware and software, not just because they can but because there is a drive to move the industry forwards.

The Mimaki UJV55-320 LED UV printer uses Mimaki’s latest flexible LED UV inkset to produce banners, backlit and point of sale graphics at up to 3.2m wide. With all the benefits of LED curing, including low running costs, the printer also features the option to run two narrower rolls concurrently, an inline lightbox for checking backlit output on the machine and the capability to run roll media up to 100kg in weight. Packed full of advanced features and Mimaki’s core technologies, the UJV55-320 makes light work of large retail and exhibition graphics with the help of its Soft Media Transportation Kit.

The drive for the instore environment to offer an ever more pleasing shopping experience is leading to retail chains investing more heavily in the graphics and displays used to create this.

Using raised dots to represent the letters of the print alphabet, Braille is a tactile reading and writing system used by blind and visually impaired people.