Felix Food - Food 3D printer

FELIXprinters is a Dutch designer and manufacturer of professional 3D printers for innovative applications in education, R&D, production and product development. One of their special edition products is the revolutionary food printer designed specially for the extrusion of edible pastes and developed with the food and hospitality industries in mind.

Video 1: Presenting the revolutionary food printer. Source: FELIXprinters.

The greatest advantage offered by the Felix Food printers is the fact that they allow to present dishes in a profoundly new way, thus contributing a unique selling point. Otherwise ordinary ingredients can be transformed into fascinating shapes and geometries and for extrusion. The Felix Food printers can work with a wide variety of pastes that can be served right away (vegetable or fruit pures, also with gelatine, butter, fats, etc) or further processed after being given an intriguing shape (chocolate, icing, merengue, pasta dough, cake dough). The only requirement is that the paste has the right viscosity to maintain its shape when printed.

Image 1: Structures printed with the Felix Food printer. Source: FELIXprinters.

A food 3D printer has many applications in places such as restaurants, fine dining establishments, bakeries, confectionaries, conference centers, hotels, chocolateries, and many more. It can be used to create a base layer for a dish (subsequently decorated), create complex structures with repeatable results, or perform highly repetitive tasks while the personnel attends to other activities. The Felix Food printers are also suitable for use at home or at care centers (the elderly, people with food allergies, picky eaters), as well as in food research labs for testing food mixtures before launching a product on the market.

Image 2: The Felix Food printer extruding vegetable pure. Source: FELIXprinters.

The Felix Food printer is an intuitive, intelligent and easy-to-use printer available in three options: with a single toolhead, a twin toolhead or a switch toolhead setup. Within each version, it is also possible to separately purchase accessories such as a heated syringe, food starter set, a set of stainless steel needles (nozzles) in various diameters, a silicone mat or a food safe flexible build plate.

Single toolhead

This setup is equipped with a single 100 cc volume syringe and offers a build volume of up to 270 x 195 x 170 mm. The single toolhead allows the user to print with one material type with precise detail, accuracy and speed, with heights of up to 170 mm.

Video 2: The Felix Food printer with a single toolhead. Source: FELIXprinters.

The box includes the Felix Food 3D printer with a single toolhead, a quick start guide, the touchscreen, a small toolkit and all the accessories necessary for the installation of the printer.

Twin toolhead

The twin toolhead setup includes two 100 cc syringes that print simultaneously for double production capacity. The syringes are positioned at a fixed distance, which provides a continuous and uniform print as a result. The build volume provided by this setup is 260 x 195 x 170 mm. This version of the Felix Food printer is best suited to projects where objects need to be replicated and produced at higher levels.

Video 3: The Felix Food printer with a twin toolhead setup. Source: FELIXprinters.

The box includes the Felix Food 3D printer with the twin toolhead setup, a quick start guide, the touchscreen, a small toolkit and all the accessories necessary for the installation of the printer.

Switch toolhead

The switch toolhead arrangement comes with two independently operating 100 cc syringes that can be filled with two different pastes and switched in seconds for creating complex creations thanks to an intelligent switch mechanism. The build volume of this version is 260 x 195 x 170 mm.

Video 4: The Felix Food printer with a switch toolhead setup. Source: FELIXprinters.

The box includes the Felix Food 3D printer in the switch toolhead version, a quick start guide, the touchscreen, a small toolkit and all the accessories necessary for the installation of the printer.

Common features

The Felix Food printer uses standard Luer lock syringes instead of costly branded products, which significantly lowers operating costs. Correct material flow and dosage, as well as no material leakage are ensured by the precise retraction mechanism with a high quality linear stepper motor. The Felix Food printer's syringe and print bed are automatically levelled and calibrated with high accuracy to ensure a perfect first layer at all times, and an overall attractively looking final effect that can be proudly presented to the customer on a plate as a dish.

Image 3: The Felix Food printer is compatible with standard Luer lock syringes. Source. FELIXprinters.

The Felix Food printer is fully compatible with industry standard and market-leading laminating software - Simplify3D and STL, OBJ, X3D and 3MF files. The Felix Food printer is controlled via a handy but powerful touchscreen with an embedded print server. The printer can be controlled remotely thanks to WiFi and LAN capabilities, and advanced supervision and the creation of timelapse videos is possible thanks to the 2 MP camera module accessible via a smartphone or a PC.

Image 4: The Felix Food printer has a simple but powerful user interface and an inbuilt camera. Source. FELIXprinters.

To make the Felix Food printer even more versatile, FELIXprinters made sure to make the whole ecosystem as upgradable, flexible and adaptable as possible. This, combined with the industrial grade materials used in its construction, makes the Felix Food printer a highly sustainable piece of equipment that can last a lifetime and meet the needs of a any culinary establishment without generating unnecessary costs. With the Felix Food printer, it is possible to print delicate structures with an aesthetically pleasing finish, thus pushing the boundaries of modern culinary art.