Eyewear Of The Future: 3D-printed eyeglasses

It’s called Printoptical Technology .

A Dutch company is working on 3D printed fully functional eyeglasses using this “Printoptical Technology”. This company has been developing and manufacturing optical solutions for the LED industry using this same type of 3D printing.

To be completed within one printing job, LUXeXcel printed as a demonstration a fully functional and compete pair of lenses and frame.

This technology prints clear ink on translucent media to make optical elements such as LED lenses. Using ink-jet technology the printer deposits drops (that manage to remain smooth) that are dried using uv light. The key element says LUXeXcel is the ultra-high resolution 1,440 dpi (pixels-per-inch) or greater.

This technology can produce very complex, optically smooth surfaces with no post-processing…this is the only 3D-printing method that can do that.

Well image that!