To mark its 50th anniversary, Mimaki Europe plans to demonstrate at Formnext 2025 how full-color, UV-curable 3D printing can be used between museum replication and product development. At booth B42 in Hall 12, the manufacturer will explain a “scan-to-print” workflow set up together with SMARTTECH3D. The aim is to preserve the color and texture fidelity of artifacts while originals are conserved or restored. To this end, objects are digitized with high-resolution 3D scanners and reproduced on Mimaki’s color 3D systems.
The exhibition area will also feature the “Digital G-O-D” project, including the sculpture “Eros-Thanatos” by the artist humanoise (Taketo Kobayashi). The work combines 3D-scanned ceramic structures from the Jōmon era with digital interventions, illustrating how color information and transparent zones can be used to interweave historical and contemporary formal languages. With this, Mimaki addresses application fields ranging from museums and fashion to art, architecture, and medicine.
Technically, Mimaki is putting the spotlight on the 3DUJ-2207. According to the manufacturer, the system prints more than ten million colors and processes transparent ink, enabling translucent effects and color gradations. Water-soluble support structures are intended to simplify post-processing and protect fine details. In addition, Mimaki points to the use of UV inks cured layer by layer, which support high dimensional accuracy on complex geometries.
Mimaki positions full-color UV 3D printing as a tool for verifiable workflows in museums and design studios.
“Formnext is where ideas take shape – and with Mimaki’s full-colour 3D printing, we are proving that even the past can be reimagined in vivid detail,” concludes Evertse.
For visitors, the Formnext showcase offers a transparent process from data capture to the finished exhibit.
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