Commercial 3D Printing Machines Are Now Being Created For Home Use

By Mila Ludlum


It defies the imagination to consider how the new technology of 3D printers will affect the world. This is expected to impact every field of enterprise in the future. This is due to the fact that it will be as inexpensive to produce one single item as to produce a hundred or even a thousand.

Techniques make it possible to turn a two dimensional image into a three dimensional one on the surface. It is a method called pad printing. Other techniques are holography, lenticular and stereograms, which are 2D parallax stereograms the the individual perceives as 3D.

What the 3D printing process does is make a 3D object using a digital model. This additive process takes layers of material laid on one on top of the other, successively, and uses them to make different shapes. In 1984 this digital technology was invented. The sales of these industrial printing machines has grown significantly since the year 2000.

Many fields of endeavor can make use of this technology including construction, architecture, engineering and aerospace. It is becoming a mass marketing item. Purchases will be made for consumers at a lower price, which is always an advantage.

When the inkjet 3D printing system is used, the printer spreads a layer of powder in a process that imitates an inkjet. The layers are repeated. It facilitates full color prototypes. If the bonded powders used need to be strengthened, that can be done using wax to enhance them.

The lamination process uses thin plastic or sheet metal to produce the effect. Liquid is used in the process called photopolymerization. Another process is called multiphoton photopolymerization, which uses gel and is able to produce very small objects.

These technologies are all complex ones that cannot be explained in detail in a general article. What is important at this time is the future capability of developing an affordable version that can be used on a small scope. It will be suitable for in home use and the cost is well under a thousand dollars.

These domestic versions of 3D printers are the right size and in the right price range to be sold for the home use purpose they are being customized for. High speed printing is possible without losing the ability to produce a high definition.

As for speed, it is not as fast as standard printers, yet faster than the industrial models. The price for the home use model continues to go down. This will enable 3D printers to continue to have an increased impact on all types of manufacturing and manufacturing development plans in cross industrial fields.




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