

Both companies used Howtek style inkjets and thermoplastic materials. Herb Menhennett joined Ballistic Particle Manufacturing (BPM) in 1993 with the Personal Modeler product. Richard Helinksi formed C.A.D.-Cast, Inc on Octo(renamed to Visual Impact Corporation), a 3D printer company to build the Sculptor but later gave up after receiving a 3D Patent US 5136515A on Augand licensed it to Sanders Prototype, Inc in 1993. Some founders and many former employees of Howtek left and joined 3D printing companies. The Pixelmaster was manufactured by Juki Corporation and sold by Howtek, Inc., Hudson, NH. It was designed to print on standard sheet paper in 4 minutes with alpha-numeric or images. The Pixelmaster, a Howtek product, printed with 32 single nozzle inkjets mounted in a rotating reservoir with 8 nozzles per color. Howtek Solid inks could print thousands of colors by subtractive color deposition (layering). Īlthough originally credited with creation by Data Products (1986), formerly Exxon (1984) acquired by Tektronix in 1986, it was also credited to Howtek in 1984. The Pixelmaster printer used "Hot melt" Thermoplastic ink jetted by piezo crystals that could spit out millions of small droplets of ink of each of the primary colors- red, green and blue - as well as black, on to a piece of paper. Two years later he formed a new company, Howtek, Inc., to carry out this mission. In 1982, Robert Howard had the idea to build a revolutionary small color printer system before he left Centronics Corporation.

These are examples of three-dimensional inks (3D Inks) or inks that stand off the page. Liquid metal was referred to as Hot-Melt "type" ink in this patent and it was introduced before the term 3D printing was ever conceived. In 1971, a patent, US3596285 was issued for a Liquid Metal Recorder, a printer process that fabricated metal models of symbols, patterns and characters. Wax was formally introduced in the first Solid ink product introduced with Continuous Inkjets in the Teletype Inktronic Terminal in 1966 but the patent for Hot-melt wax did not issue until Patent US3653932 April 4, 1972. Solid ink is the name for ink that is solid at room temperature. With input from hundreds of visual effects studios, post production companies, game studios, design firms and manufacturers we've been able to provide the most powerful yet simple to use render farm management interface on the market.Solid ink, Hot-Melt or Phase change ink was introduced in 1962 at Teletype Corporation in the Project 176.

Said PipelineFX technology director Scot Brew: “We've been listening closely to our customers and with version 5.4 we are continuing to deliver the feature-rich, easy to use GUI they've asked for. Qube will also be featured in the IBM booth managing rendering on IBM's iDataPlex high-density servers
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The company will be showing off the software at annual computer graphics conference from August 11 – 14 in booth #833.
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The update is available now for download to all current Qube customers under active support. Qube 5.4 promises over 60 new features and feature enhancements, including the ability to resubmit downstream dependencies. Digital media software company PipelineFX announced the release of Qube 5.4, an update to its render farm management software for film and post production, game development, and digital media education, which it will exhibit at Siggraph 2008.
