3D PRINTING

-Funcionamiento

-Materiales que utiliza

-Características del equipo (laser, extrusion..)

-Espesor de la capa

-Velocidad

-Dimensiones de los prototipos obtenidos

Desde prótesis dentales a piezas de 5m

-Proveedores

3D Systems Corporation

3D Systems es un proveedor mundial líder de contenido en 3D para imprimir soluciones que incluyen las impresoras 3D personales, profesionales y de producción, los materiales de impresión integrados y servicios a la carta piezas de encargo para los profesionales y los consumidores. En línea con nuestro compromiso de democratizar el acceso y acelerar la adopción de la impresión 3D asequible también ofrecemos el desarrollo de contenido creativo, el software de CAD en 3D, servicios de curación y descargas de contenido.

Compañías tales como Objet Geometries, Stratasys, 3D Systems, EOS GmbH, and Z Corporation.25 son proveedores de impresoras industriales.

The largest-volume supplier is Hewlett-Packard, which supply over 90 percent of the market for printers for printing technical drawings. The major products in their Designjet series are the Designjet 500/800, the Designjet T Printer series (including the T1100 & T610), the Designjet 1050 and the Designjet 4000/4500. They also have the HP Designjet 5500, a six-color printer that is used especially for printing graphics as well as the new Designjet Z6100 which sits at the top of the HP Designjet range and features an eight colour pigment ink system .

Epson, Kodak and Canon also manufacture wide-format printers, sold in much smaller numbers than standard printers. Epson has a group of 3 Japanese companies around it that predominantly use Epson piezo printheads and inks: Mimaki, Roland, and Mutoh.

Scitex Digital Printing developed high-speed, variable-data, inkjet printers for production printing, but sold its profitable assets associated with the technology to Kodak in 2005 who now market the printers as Kodak Versamark™ VJ1000, VT3000, and VX5000 printing systems. These roll-fed printers can print at up to 1000 feet per minute.

Professional high-volume inkjet printers are made by a range of companies. These printers can range in price from US$35,000 to $2 million. Carriage widths on these units can range from 54" to 192" (about 1.4 to 5 m), and ink technologies tend toward solvent, eco-solvent and UV-curing as opposed to water-based (aqueous) ink sets. Major applications where these printers are used are for outdoor settings for billboards, truck sides and truck curtains, building graphics and banners, while indoor displays include point-of-sales displays, backlit displays, exhibition graphics and museum graphics.

The major suppliers for professional wide- and grand-format printers include: Agfa Graphics, LexJet, Grapo, Inca, Durst, Océ, NUR (now part of Hewlett-Packard), Lüscher, VUTEk, Zünd, Scitex Vision (now part of Hewlett-Packard), Mutoh, Mimaki, Roland DG], Seiko I Infotech, Sun Innovations,[25] Leggett and Platt, Agfa, Raster Printers, DGI and MacDermid ColorSpan (now part of Hewlett-Packard)

[edit]Printing of functional materials

• Three-dimensional printing constructs a prototype by "printing" appreciably thick cross-sections of material on top of one another.

• U.S Patent 6,319,530 describes a "Method of photocopying an image onto an edible web for decorating iced baked goods". In other words, this invention enables one to inkjet print a food-grade colorphotograph on a birthday cake's surface. Many bakeries now carry these types of decorations, which are printable using edible inks and dedicated

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