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News Release from: HumanEyes Technologies | Subject: Lensfree lenticular image technology
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 March 2007
3D Image Effects Printed On Glass Now
Possible
New Humaneyes' Lensfree technology, allows printers and designers to produce 3D effects directly on to non-lenticular materials, such as glass or acrylic (plexiglass).
New Humaneyes' Lensfree technology, allows printers and designers to produce 3D effects directly on to non-lenticular materials, such as glass or acrylic (plexiglass) It was unveiled at Graphics of the Americas, where Humaneyes said it had tested the technology on UV digital flatbed printers
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 19 Jul 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Duby Hodd, Humaneyes chief executive officer, said: "This is one of the year's most stand-out innovations.
The effect of 3D on glass, with no intermediary substrate, is that it looks like the image is actually in the glass.
It's extraordinary." Technology demonstrations was shown on Humaneyes' stand and that of its partner, Gandinnovations.
Humaneyes engineers said that new printing abilities afforded by flatbed digital UV inkjet presses have opened the way for the application of backlit 3D and lenticular effects.
Instead of printing on dedicated lenticular sheets, 3D effects as well as 2D animation can be printed on standard glass or acrylic (plexiglass) using a dialogue box now added to the Humaneyes Printpro software.
Using the flatbed press, a grid is printed on one face of the glass and an interlaced project (3D or animation) is then printed on the opposite side.
The combination of the grid, the thickness of the glass, and the optimised interlace yield an impressive effect, said Humaneyes.
End products include, for instance, backlit posters with very accurate effects that can be viewed from longer distances than those projected by regular lenticular printing.
Materials printed using this method may serve as POP or POS displays, in-store and mall decorations, interior design elements, subway, railway and airport advertisements.
Project sizes are no longer limited to the available maximum size of lenticular sheets and may be much larger, with no need for tiling, added the company.
Humaneyes said it will soon offer users of its technology the tools to create the grid print files and optimise the interlace to all job parameters.
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