Routing
Factum Arte’s routing process allows our team of 3D designers and craftsmen to fabricate pieces in a variety of materials, including high and low-density polyurethane, wood, alabaster, aluminium, brass, bronze, plaster and anthracite.
Flatbed Colour Printing
Factum’s flatbed printer – a modified Epson Stylus Pro 11880 – is unique in that it enables the operator to very precisely over-print the same surface many times. This means that a printed image can be built up in layers of ink of varying opacity and therefore that the tonal range of Factum’s system is much greater than that of many commercially available printers.
Elevated printing
Factum Arte and Factum Foundation have been working with Canon Production Printing (previously Océ – A Canon Company) since 2015, adapting and applying their elevated printing technology to the reproduction of exact facsimiles.
3D Printing
The term ‘3D printing’ refers to a series of computer-controlled additive manufacturing techniques, all of which involve material being joined together to create a three-dimensional object. The types of files that can be 3D printed include 3D models obtained via 3D scanning methods. One of the main advantages of 3D printing techniques over CNC milling is that it enables the re-materialisation of objects with complex geometries as well as very fine surface relief. Factum Foundation employs a number of 3D printing techniques as part of the process of creating a piece or reproducing a work of art.