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1. A system for curing a quantity of curable material, comprising:a dispenser in communication with the quantity of curable material, said dispenser capable of dispensing a dispensed portion of the curable material;a base portion including a recess defined by a plurality of planar faces including:a central first face,a pair of second faces, each face of said pair of second faces extending from an opposite side of the first face and being disposed at a first angle with respect to said first face, anda pair of third faces, each face of said pair of third faces extending from a separate second face and being disposed at a second angle with respect to said first face different from the first angle;a light-emitting diode mounted on one each of said first, second, and third faces; anda refractive optical culmination device positioned to intercept light emitted from each said light-emitting diode and to at least one of intensify and direct said light emitted from said light-emitting diode to cure said dispensed portion of the curable material. 2. The system of claim 1, wherein each said optical culmination device is positioned to intensify and direct said light emitted from said one light-emitting diode to cure said dispensed portion of the curable material. 3. The system of claim 1, wherein said optical culmination device is substantially aligned with one of said first, second, and third faces. 4. A system for curing a quantity of curable material, comprising:a dispenser in communication with the quantity of curable material, said dispenser being capable of dispensing a dispensed portion of the curable material;a base including a plurality of elongate faces, each of said elongate faces defining a longitudinal length extending in a longitudinal direction;a plurality of light-emitting diodes, multiple diodes of said plurality of light-emitting diodes being mounted on each of said faces and being linearly arranged in the longitudinal direction thereof; anda plurality of elongate, cylindrical transparent optical culmination devices, each device being positioned to intercept light emitted from at least one light-emitting diode of said plurality of diodes and at least one of intensify and direct said light emitted from said at least one light-emitting diode as the intercepted light passes through the transparent optical culmination device to cure said dispensed portion of the curable material, each optical culmination device of said plurality of culmination devices extending in the longitudinal direction of the corresponding face and being substantially aligned with the respective multiple of light-emitting diodes mounted on said corresponding face. 5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a printer, said printer including said dispenser. 6. A system of claim 1 wherein said second angle is less than 90 degrees.