DESKTOP HEALTH MARKS A BREAKTHROUGH IN BIOPRINTING WITH PRINTROLL LAUNCH

Nicole Black, Ph.D., VP of Biomaterials and Innovation at Desktop Health, examines two tubular medical devices printed on the new 3D-Bioplotter® PrintRoll™ rotating build platform in medical-grade materials. PrintRoll is designed to enable new medical solutions for the body’s thousands of miles of internal channels, such as vascular, digestive, and other systems. (Photo: Business Wire)

KUALA LUMPUR, July 25 (Bernama) -- Desktop Health, the trusted production-grade medical 3D printing brand of Desktop Metal Inc has announced a breakthrough in bioprinting with the launch of PrintRoll.

PrintRoll is an innovative rotating build platform that can produce intelligent tubular solutions for the body’s vascular, digestive, respiratory and reproductive channels on the 3D-Bioplotter premier bioprinting system.

The 3D-Bioplotter is a highly sophisticated extrusion-based 3D printer that processes liquids, melts, pastes, gels or other materials, including cells via a needle tip on a Swiss-made, 3-axis gantry system with high accuracy and temperature, sterility and design controls.

According to a statement, the PrintRoll add-on feature has been in development since 2019 as part of a collaboration with Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, a public research university in Mainz, Germany.

“Desktop Health exists to deliver 3D printing solutions that improve patient lives, and we are confident that PrintRoll, offered exclusively on the 3D-Bioplotter, will enable all-new regenerative innovations,” said Desktop Metal Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Ric Fulop.

Meanwhile, Desktop Health Vice President of Biomaterials and Innovation, Nicole Black said: “With the PrintRoll, materials are patterned directly on top of a substrate that rolls as the printhead also moves, supporting the deposited layers and therefore expanding the palette of materials that can be 3D printed into these important structures.”

The PrintRoll platform attaches to the modular build plate of the 3D-Bioplotter and features a motor-driven rotating mandrel with spring-loaded, easily exchangeable drums of different sizes, while rotating speed is tightly controlled by the 3D-Bioplotter’s easy-to-use software.

The PrintRoll comes with a 10 millimetre (mm) diameter drum, with 20 mm and 40 mm sizes available, designed to accommodate the development of solutions for a variety of human channels, which vary based on age and gender.

PrintRoll continues the long history of bioprinting innovations on the world’s most researched bioprinting system, as detailed in the last 3D-Bioplotter brochure.

-- BERNAMA