Thursday 12 December 2013

In The Future The Cost Of Home Use 3D Printers Will Still Decline

By Ewa Carlsen


The new 3D printers are bringing a technology to all fields of technology. It is beyond what was imagined before the 1980s. Now it is inexpensive enough to facilitate production of a single item. The cost will be as low per item as it is to produce thousands.

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.

The 3D printing process makes a 3D solid object using a digital model. It is an additive process. To make the different shapes, layers of material are laid down successively. Digital technology of this type was first created in 1984. Since the year 2000, the sales of these machines has grown exponentially.

This is useful in the fields of architecture and construction, aerospace, engineering and a host of others. It is slated to become an item of mass marketing. It is predicted to make purchases cheaper for consumers.

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.

Lamination is used producing thin plastic or sheet metals. Photopolymerization produces solids from a liquid. Digital light processing is another method as is multiphoton polymerization which uses a block of gel and produces ultra-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.

This inexpensive version of the 3D printer is being customized specifically for domestic uses. The price is decreasing as the adaptability is increasing. These inexpensive units will be capable of achieving high-definition and high speed printing in 3D.

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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