US Patent 11179885 Desktop 3-dimensional printing apparatus

There is provided a method of manufacturing a 3D object from a plurality of media layers including processing a media layer to define a layer of the 3D object, said processing including: cutting the media layer to define the profile of the layer; printing the media layer to define the colour of the layer. The processing including the cutting and printing of the media layer is done in a common reference plane and a plurality of media layers are processed and assembled at the build location to form the object.