Special | IDM Cheeseneering Cheese-making and logistic technologies at their best 10 2016 | international-dairy.com · 25 make incl. the wholes. Company logos and similar emblems can also be made; they can be printed live during events in print runs up to 300. Even in Dutch TV Michaela had an appearance. All this marks only the starting point for Michaela. The largest object that has been made so far by Printcheese measures 4 x 2 cm. In future, industrial food printers will allow to manufacture I much larger dimension and the use of more than one extrusion nozzle will allow for producing fillings or multi coloured products. At the moment, Printcheese experiments with nozzles to exclude adhesion of cheese, another problem that waits to be solved is the entry of air. The three dimensional shapes for controlling the extrusion head of the 3D printer can be generated by commercial soft- Michaela van Leeuwen demonstrates regularely the 3D print process for cheese für at events (photo: Pintcheese) Shapes like hearts or stars printed from cheese are just the basis for development of more complex 3D objects (photo: Printcheese) sulbana.com ware which comes with a multitude of pre-set shapes. But generating new shapes takes only a few minutes. At a later stage, Michaela intends to interlink 3D scanners with a PC to generate individual shapes for one-of-a-kind products, such as portraits for instance. The on-going development work at Printcheese consumes over 40 hours per week which Michaela has to accomplish besides her part tome work at Dutch farmers’ association LTO where she informs farmers about sustainability. And there are two little daughters to take care of, leaving no time for farm work. The 100 milk cows are taken care of by Michaela’s partner Jan Willem Breukink who also has ambitious plans for doubling the herd size after new construction of the farm. Then, the van Leeuwens plan to start their own farmhouse cheese making, and Michaela will of course use that cheese for print. The long-term objective of Printcheese is to manufature individual delicatessen products made using cheese and other raw material for sale in the conventional retail shops. Michaela speaks of cheese bonbons where each piece has a different shape and is filled or decorated with different ingredients.
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