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HP releases Multi Jet Fusion

by on30 October 2014

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New cheaper 3D printers

The maker of expensive printer ink HP announced a new 3D printing technology called Multi Jet Fusion that will enable mass production of parts with a technology traditionally reserved for rapid prototyping.

According to HP the new industrial 3D printer is about the size of a washing machine, is 10 times faster and 50 per cent less expensive than current systems on the market.

The printer can also use lots of colours and materials.

HP has also created Sprout, a new computing platform that combines a 23-in touch screen monitor and horizontal capacitive touch mat with a scanner, depth sensor, hi-res camera, and projector in a single desktop device.

Sprout allows users to scan physical objects into a virtual platform that combines multiple applications for development. Those objects can then be sent to a Multi Jet Fusion printer to be created on the fly.

The Sprout platform also has a collaborative capability so multiple developers or artists can work on that same project at the same time.

HP has released a software development kit for Sprout.

The Sprout platform is not designed to interact exclusively with the new 3D platform, but will serve more as an artistic and engineering design tool.

Sprout is available for pre-order on HP's website today and it will be in stores beginning on Nov. 8 for $1,899.

Describing it as a new direction for HP, Dion Weisler, executive vice president of HP Printing & Personal Systems, said along with traditional print and compute platforms, the company will now be focused on "blended reality," which allows users to move physical objects into the digital world, manipulate them and churn them back out as new products.

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