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HP showed its first 3D-printer

Earlier this year, Hewlett-Packard Company entered the market of 3D-printers, industrial concluded a cooperation agreement with the company Stratasys, and in May the markets of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom will be available the first product of joint work of engineers two companies – printer Designjet 3D, designed for prototyping facilities. In some cases, such a device can significantly reduce production costs.

“Millions of 3D-designers using traditional printers are ready to implement their design in 3D, – said Santiago Morire ( Santiago Morera), vice president of HP and general manager of large format printers .- Technology Stratasys Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) is an impeccable foundation for HP, to get into print 3D MCAD and begin to benefit from these untapped opportunities. ”

To create an object CAD-file is sent to the Designjet 3D, then the printer using inkjet printing technology layer by layer heated thermoplastic or other material. HP offers two models: Designjet 3D and Designjet Color 3D for $13 thousand and $17.5 thousand, respectively, with the latest version is able to color 3D-printing, notes 3Dnews.ru.

For the first time the concept of 3D-printer was introduced by Stratasys in mid-1990’s, when the company in collaboration with IBM introduced the first compact system. The last 7 years in the new market Stratasys holds a leading position with a share of over 50%. However, the wide dissemination of various 3D-printing technology prevents the high price of these devices. The first 3D-printer Stratasys Dimension, released in 2002, cost $30 thousand in 2009, broke the price barrier of $15 thousand

We can expect that the technology allows you to create objects in single copies, will become more accessible, repeating the path of laser printers, whose implementation began with the business sector and has reached large-scale user-level. 3D-printers offer broad prospects not only in the work of engineers who require testing of their products at the design stage, but some industries short-run production.

By the way, similar technologies allow the creation of metal designs by baking powder material, and using inkjet technology – to print electrical circuits and even grow living bodies.