4D Printing: Personalization on 3D Objects

The digital printing market has expanded greatly over the past twenty years with increasing use of personalization. This has typically been using variable data on flat printed pieces, such as letters and marketing collateral. With the continued developments and improvements in the application of variable data and personalization there has been an complementary increase in awareness of the value derived from the this and the interest to print directly variable data on the surface of multi-dimensional objects, such as cups and balls shown in Figure 1. The Omnifire 250 was developed specifically for these types of applications and was a 2016 recipient of the Printing Industry of America's InterTech Technology Award.