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A 3D printer inside a hospital is not just making things. It's enhancing lives with a myriad of applications from fabricating simple parts to be used in facilities, to creating actual prosthetics that are used as limbs and body parts to help those without them.

The power to control full-color prints at the voxel level gives you the artistic freedom to create pretty much anything you can imagine, like this Italian marbled pattern on 3D printed lampshades. Combining GrabCAD Voxel Print with a Stratasys J750 3D printer allows you to produce this level of detail in your color 3D prints.

This tutorial covers a little-known feature in Photoshop you can use (today) to quickly create incredibly complex displacement-mapped parts for your 3D printer in full color.