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Pete Pharma 3D Printer
Precise dosing — pharmaceutical 3D printing
A pharmacy-scale pharmaceutical 3D printer that produces printlets — patient-specific oral dosage forms printed to an exact dose. Built on more than a decade of global research by FABRx across universities, hospitals and compounding pharmacies, Pete Pharma puts that proven technology directly into the hands of compounders, replacing grinding and manual capsule work with a digital, traceable production step.
How it is used
- Preparation of the printing material from the API and excipient blend.
- Loading the syringe with the prepared printing material.
- 3D printing the dose — each printlet produced to the prescribed strength.
- Post-printing collection of the finished printlets.
- Final product packaging and dispensing.
Advantages
- Personalized medicine, delivered at scale.
- Smarter efficiency — less labor, less waste, more precision.
- Compliance made simple with digital traceability and in-line QC.
- Taste-masking options that improve patient adherence.
- Extended-release and dissolvable forms that open new therapy possibilities.
- A pharmacy-first partnership model where your success is the measure of success.
Operating parameters
Source: FagronLab™ Formulation Guide. Always follow the parameters for your jar size and API concentration.
Annual cost comparison — conventional compounding vs. 3D printing
Assumptions: technician labor $25/hour; 10 scripts per day × 245 days = 2,450 scripts/year; average script revenue $100 (illustrative).
| Conventional | 3D printing | |
|---|---|---|
| Labor cost | $25,500 | $8,175 |
| Operations | ~$5,000 | ~$500 |
| Total | $30,500 | $8,657 |
What it delivers
Better outcomes, truly personalized
Patients receive medicine that is more effective, more tailored to their needs and easier to take.
Smarter delivery, more choice
Taste masking boosts adherence, while extended-release and dissolvable printlets extend what the pharmacy can offer.
From grinding to gaining
A digital workflow that removes manual steps, cuts labor and operating cost, and grows with your script volume.
Compliance built in
Digital traceability and in-line quality control document every printed dose.
A pharmacy-first approach to innovation
Pharmaceutical 3D printing has been validated over more than a decade of research by FABRx in universities, hospitals and compounding pharmacies. Pete Pharma brings that science to the compounding bench as a practical, supported production system.
Instead of grinding, weighing and hand-filling each dose, the pharmacy prepares a printing material, loads the syringe and prints the exact strength prescribed — with the batch record captured digitally as the dose is produced.
Specifications
Full technical specifications — dimensions, capacity, power requirements — are available from your Fagron representative. Contact us below and we will send the current spec sheet.
Questions about equipment?
Contact your Fagron Equipment Representative, Nicholas Fournarakis
Nicholas can help with pricing, demos, installation, training and service for any FagronLab™ instrument or workflow.
Nicholas.Fournarakis@fagron.usContact Fagron
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