How are they 3D printing 100 custom insoles at a time?

By Lyndsey Vickers


Friday 19 June 2026, 10:00:00 AM


Every patient is different, every insole is unique, and HP’s MJF technology never sees that as a problem. It just prints them, a hundred at a time, each one customised to the individual.

In the second video shot at Firefly Orthotics, Lyndsey Vickers of MTDCNC and Jon Porter of Matsuura Machinery Ltd explore how Firefly has halved delivery times, doubled digital manufacturing output, and built a growing business around a technology that’s only getting better.

If you want to know what modern orthotics looks like, check out Firefly’s journey from plaster casts to a fully digital workflow.



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