Cambridge, UK—Meteor Inkjet Ltd, leading supplier of industrial inkjet printhead drive electronics, and AMIS, Additive Manufacturing software innovator, have joined forces to provide a seamlessly integrated solution for binder and material jetting from “DFE to drop”.

OEM print system builders grapple with numerous challenges in adopting inkjet technology for Additive Manufacturing. Many of these challenges mirror those faced in 2D printing, where significant inkjet experience already exists. Common issues include optimising print quality, increasing production throughput, ensuring system reliability and integrating inkjet technology into existing manufacturing workflows. A new Digital Front End offered by AMIS, coupled with Meteor’s robust datapath solutions for all major industrial inkjet printheads, allows printer manufacturers to streamline their industrial build processes, making job preparation, configuration, printing and monitoring faster and easier than ever.

AMIS DFE is an on-premise Digital Front End specifically designed to optimise print and printer control for binder jetting and material jetting. Facilitating quick and accurate preparation of parts, batches, and slices, its API-based architecture ensures straightforward integration with MIS/MES systems and with simulation software or CAD input. By leveraging Meteor’s extensive industrial inkjet expertise, print system builders gain access to the world’s largest range of industrial inkjet printheads from industry leaders including Xerox, Xaar, Seiko Instruments, Riso, Ricoh, Kyocera, Konica Minolta, FUJIFILM Dimatix and Epson.

Clive Ayling, Meteor’s Managing Director comments, “The alliance of Meteor and AMIS connects the AM community with decades of combined experience in inkjet hardware and enterprise software whilst making the most of the synergy that comes from both Meteor and AMIS being a part of the Hybrid Software Group. Together, we look forward to helping OEM print system builders harness the power of inkjet for Additive Manufacturing in a way that provides a meaningful reduction in system development cost, time and risk.”

AMIS CEO Nick De Roeck adds, “Although AMIS was established in 2023, we build upon decades of enterprise software experience gained by Hybrid Software. After AMIS DFE’s successful beta launch in May, I am confident our solution provides unsurpassed nesting speed, density and quality, smooth workflow, and an intuitive interface. With Meteor, we have a winning combination.”

To discuss AMIS DFE or any of Meteor’s complete line of scalable, production-ready electronics, software, tools and services, arrange a meeting at Formnext in Frankfurt, 19 – 22 November (Meteor Inkjet Stand 12.0/C82; AMIS Stand 12.0/B47).