Table 1.

Comparison of three types of bioprinting techniques. Figures adapted with permission from [27].

	Inkjet-Based Bioprinter	Laser-Assisted Bioprinter	Extrusion-Based Bioprinter
Bioprinters
Cost	Low	High	Moderate
Material viscosities	3.5–12 mPa/s	1–300mPa/s	30 to >6 × 107 mPa/s
Resolution	10–100 µm	~75 µm	100 µm-mm range
Quality of structure	Poor	Fair	High
Print speed	Fast	Medium	Slow
Cell viability	>85%	>95%	40–80%
Examples
Reference	[25,28,29,30,31]	[32,33,34,35]	[15,24,36,37,38,39]