printing founder rafa tomasiak marcin olchanowski headquarters olsztyn poland key people rafa tomasiak ceo marcin olchanowski cto karolina bo d coo products zortrax m200 zortrax inventure zortrax m300 website www.zortrax.com zortrax is a polish manufacturer of 3d printers and filaments for smb market and rapid prototyping for industries including robotics and automation architecture industrial design engineering aviation industrial automation . zortrax machines work with dedicated software firmware and filaments . contents 1 history 2 technology 3 prizes and awards 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit zortrax was founded by rafal tomasiak and marcin olchanowski . an idea for company came from online store supporting diy licensed 3d printers . they run the shop and worked on the new machine simultaneously . the idea was to create a complete 3d printing environment which would allow to distance themselves from the diy industry . work on m200 started in 2011 and completed in 2013 . to support production they launched kickstarter 1 campaign and gathered almost 180 000 . 2 zortrax shipped 3d printers to all backers and invested money in further development . 3 bonds issued in january and march 2014 brought 7 2m pln . 4 5 on december 3rd 2015 zortrax opened its showroom in warsaw poland the zortrax store . the main idea for the showroom is to broaden the knowledge of 3d printing among both professional and students . it s one of the first mono brand stationary stores in europe . technology edit zortrax manufactures layer plastic deposition lpd technology . the technology is using three dimensional data to create three dimensional model in layer after layer process . layer plastic deposition is a technology in which printer is melting thermoplastic material filament in the extruder and apply it precisely on heated platform layer after layer . zortrax m200 dedicated printing materials are z abs z ultrat z glass z hips z pcabs z petg and zortrax inventure z ultrat plus . zortrax z suite software is created specifically for zortrax machines . z suite allows to open a . stl . obj or . dxf file and set printing preferences . it is the only 3d printing software in which users are able to convert 2d files into 3d 6 models and cut models directly in z suite software . 7 it s dedicated for both windows and mac users . zortrax developed an application for storing and downloading 3d models the zortrax library . it s available in both z suite and online . prizes and awards edit 2014 50 creative in business for brief magazine 8 2014 the jan wejchert prize of the polish business roundtable in vision and innovation category 9 2014 design alive award for best strategists 10 2014 25 polish best industrial designs 11 2014 best 3d printer in the plug n play category 3d hubs 12 2015 top design award in science medicine industry category 13 2015 3rd most wanted 3d printer in 3d hubs community 14 2015 zortrax m200 the best plug & play 3d printer in 2015 & 2016 the world s best desktop 3d printer by 3d hubs community 15 2015 zortrax m200 2nd best overall fdm 3d printer 3d printing shootout by make magazine 16 see also edit list of 3d printer manufacturers references edit plug & print zortrax m200 3d printer launched on kickstarter . 3ders . org . 23 may 2013 . retrieved 24 february 2015 . zortrax m200 professional desktop 3d printer . kickstarter.com . 21 june 2013 . retrieved 24 february 2015 . zortrax 3d printer finally shipping after successful kickstarter campaign . softpedia.com . 24 october 2013 . retrieved 24 february 2015 . polish 3d printer maker zortrax hungry for fresh funds . reuters.com . 24 march 2014 . retrieved 24 february 2015 . zortrax the polish 3d printing company looking to go public as it raises 3.5 million in public bonds . techcrunch.com . 18 march 2014 . retrieved 24 february 2015 . z suite beta v0 .0.8 for windows and mac available . zortrax.com blog . 24 july 2014 . retrieved 24 february 2015 . zortrax m 200 review . all3dp.com . 20 february 2015 . retrieved 24 august 2015 . 50 creative in business for brief magazine . brief.pl . 1 march 2013 . retrieved 24 february 2015 . the jan wejchert prize of the polish business roundtable in vision and innovation category . businessnow.pl . 8 april 2014 . retrieved 24 february 2015 . design alive award for best strategists . designalive.pl . 4 december 2014 . retrieved 24 february 2015 . zortrax cracks top 25 polish best industrial designs . 3dprintingindustry . com . 9 october 2014 . retrieved 24 february 2015 . best 3d printer in the plug n play category . 3dhubs . com . retrieved 24 february 2015 . top design award in science medicine industry category . arenadesign.pl . 15 january 2015 . retrieved 24 february 2015 . zortrax m200 voted 3 most wanted 3d printer . 3dhubs . com zortrax.com . 19 january 2015 . retrieved 24 february 2015 . 2016 best 3d printer guide . 3d hubs . the winners from make s digital fabrication shootout make . make diy projects and ideas for makers . 2015 11 04 . retrieved 2016 04 26 . external links edit zortrax official site zortrax official polish site zortrax store zortrax library zortrax support center zortrax blog retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title zortrax & oldid 727372971 categories 3d printer companiesmanufacturing companies of polandcompanies established in 2013polish brandscomputing output devices3d printers navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages polski edit links this page was last modified 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