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Ultimaker BV is a Dutch based 3d printer company which was founded in 2011 by Martijn Elserman, Erik de Bruijn, and Siert Wijnia. Ultimaker started selling their products in May 2011. The company's foundation was laid at ProtoSpace Utrecht where Siert Wijnia organised two workshops to build the then new Reprap. Darwin, Erik de Bruin and Martijn Elserman assisted at those workshops. Frustration from their inability to get the Darwin design to work led to the inspiration to create their own design. Instead of sticking to the reprap principle that their printer should be able to print its own parts, they designed their printer to be built mostly of lasercut plywood parts, that could be produced orders of magnitude faster than printed parts at the time. Their first prototypes bore the name 'Ultimaker protobox' but newer prototypes were just titled 'Ultimaker'. 2 Beta-workshops were organised at ProtoSpace Utrecht starting in September and december 2010 each 10 monday evenings long. In march 2011 Ultimaking ltd. released their 3D printer as a kit only, then known as 'Ultimaker' (in 2013 renamed as Ultimaker Original) under a Creative Commons BY-NC license.

Ultimaker Original is a predecessor of Ultimaker 2 and released a few months after the company is founded. Ultimaker Original can be modified to the user preference. The Ultimaker Original has been awarded as Fastest and Most Accurate 3D printer available by MAKE Magazine

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