This printer will allow chocolate lovers to print their own candy, layer by layer. Principal investigators from the University of Exeter, Liang Hao Edge Choc founded to commercialize the device after seeing much interest from the retail side.
Hao expressed on the BBC on Monday (09/04/2012), printing the same brown as other 3D printing techniques. Starting with a cross-sectional images, similar to those produced by ordinary printer when removing the image. Then the printer was printing a chocolate layer by layer to create a 3D shape.
"We have to improve and simplify the engine, so now it becomes very easy printer to use. You only need to melt the chocolate-filled, the contents of the syringe is stored in the printer and get creative printing your chocolate," said Hao.
These printers are unique to attract a number of retail and e-commerce websites around the world to buy the device when it is available later. Thorntons for example, a retail specialist and the largest chocolate manufacturer in the UK was rumored to have approached the scientist after the prototype printer that out.
Not just chocolate printer, other researchers around the world also is busy developing food printers in 2011 ago. One of them, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed a prototype of the device similar to a printer and was dubbed Digital Chocolate Chocolatier.
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