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Formlabs’ new pro 3D printers claim 2–5x speed by ditching lasers for an LCD screen
Bye-bye, laser stereolithography.
Formlabs was one of the early Kickstarter success stories, and its laser-blasting 3D printers are now used by model makers, prototypers, dentists, and maybe even action figure companies around the globe. Formlabs claims you could beat an injection molding machine with four of its $4,500 printers, if you’re printing batches of small parts like these: (Mind you, 3D printed resin parts have to be washed afterward, but injection molded ones need their excess plastic cut away; Formlabs third-party spokesperson Meredith Chiricosta tells me post-processing time is roughly the same.)
Or read this on The Verge
