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Life and Challenges Co Ltd is the one and only 3D printers and scanners business in Myanmar. Available there are Mcor Matrix 300+ and Mcor Iris printer, products of Ireland’s: Mcor Technologies that can produce 3D models with paper as their stuff, the first innovation of its kind in the world. Also available are plastic 3D printers from MakerBot Industries of America and 3D scanners from Artec Group of Luxembourg. In the following interview Marketing Executive U Tint Htoo Khaing talked about the sale and service of the company

U Tint Htoo Khaing,
Marketing Executive,
Life and Challenge Co Ltd

Service

In addition to selling 3D printers and scanners we offer animation services for 3D designers and engineers. We also offer creation of 3D models of such objects as fine artistic works and antiques.

Product range on sale
We import and sell two types of 3D printers from Ireland’s Mcor Technologies: Mcor Iris (True color) and Mcor Matrix 300+ (Mono). And also plastic 3D printers from the MakerBot Industries of America. Mcor Matrix 300+ produces the same colour of the paper you use. White in, white out; red in, red out Mcor Iris with its built-in 2D Epson Printer, is capable of giving you the true colour of the object. Regarding 3D scanner, we have (Artec Eva) and (Artec spider) from the Artec Group of Luxembourg.

Different 3D printer prices
Price varies according to the kind of raw mate-rial you use. The paper we use for both kinds of scanner is of A4 size. A packet of A4 paper is 3,000 kyats at the most. Good-quality plastic, ABS, for the plastic-using printer costs about USD 100 a roll. Another thing I’d like to say is that the paper-using Mcor Iris printer can give you many different colours, whereas the plastic printer gives two different colours at the most.

Size of models a paper-using printer can produce
The paper-using printer can give you a size equivalent to that of a stack of three packets of A4 paper. To get a large size, you’ll have to make it piece by piece and then paste them together. You can get it all by doing that way: life-size statues of men, large wall maps etc.

The time it takes to produce a model
It depends on the size of the model. A 3D model in true colour of a man’s bust, three inches around, takes about 16 hours. A packet of A4 paper (five hundred pieces of paper) can give you two small models, each three inches around.
Cost by paper-using printer
We charge four-thousand kyats for one hours’ true-colour printing. Without colour, it will be just three thousand kyats. We use Artec Eva in normal scanning, charging at the rate of ten-thousand kyats for an object less than one foot around. Sanning a man’s face and neck costs ten thousand kyats. The bust is twenty-thousand and the part of the body from the waist up is thirty-thousand kyats. In scanning things with extremely intricate patterns we use Artec Spider and charge about twenty-thousand kyats for things less than one foot around.

To make 3D printer popular in Myanmar
Very few people in our country know about 3D scanning and 3D printing. We’ve been using every opportunity available to make it known to the people that these technologies are row already here in Myanmar and also how they can be used. We visited potential customers and demonstrated how these devices work. We’re also in contact with hospitals for cooperation in producing models for use in medicine.

The time 3D printing will come into wide-spread use in Myanmar .

Because it’s been just a little over one or two years since we started this 3D printing business, I think, it’ll take one or two years more for 3D printing to come into popular use here in this country. Formerly we only did 3D printing, but we recently launched related services. This, we believe, will increase people’s interest in this business.

People who use 3D model most
Mostly people who wish to have their designs in 3D versions. The 3D models are also used as teaching aids in medicine. Those who wish to preserve their fragile things and antiques use 3D model. In foreign countries there already is a widespread use of 3D models in animation, as in “World War Z” where the bodies and costumes’ of Zombies were created this way.

Plan for the future
We’re committed to giving 3D printing a high profile in Myanmar, not only by selling 3D printers and scanners but also by providing related services.

Address

No 201, Thihathu St, Ward 11, S. Okkalapa Township, Yangon.

Tanslated by – Nyunt Thaung