The printer detects material type automatically based on the cartridge eliminating the need to change print settings.

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It can work with any brand of printer and any device type (provided they are running Google Docs or the Chrome Web browser).

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By stringing together thousands of these so-called droplets (which measure about 50 microns across) using a custom-built 3D printer, the Oxford team believes it has engineered a "new type of material" that could eventually be used to ferry drugs throughout our internal systems to a specific target site, fill-in for damaged tissues or even mimic neural pathways via specially printed protein pores.

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