only $50K for the printer and $60K for the furnace. Sure, I say let’s get two.
Actually, the last one I saw from someone else was 150K and not much larger footprint.
Give it time it’ll come down.
Yea, I was about to point out the price- $110,000. Besides there are other options in this space. I think 3d Systems sells some.
I want a Carbon 3d.
Imagine the FormLab printer- only instead of using a laser that scans through the image, it uses something like an OLED, or maybe a CRT (Not sure of the light source), but it projects the entire layer image at once. Which makes it really fast. Dr. DeSimone- my Organic Chem. Professor back in the day- is a polymer chemist- so they have lots of unique materials that are great. https://www.carbon3d.com/
Its a service/subscription model. I wonder if he would remember me and give me a price break? Hah- likely not- on both counts.
On a more realistic note- it would be nice to get some more printers. They work well and they are fast, but there are some issues. They are seeing pretty good use, and at any given time about half of them will be down and about 75% of the web cameras will be down.
We have one whimpy printer that will do PLA or Ninja Flex. There have been a few come across maker trade that I’ve been trying to grab and add to the room, but people always beat me to it and take it home. Id like to see a Delta Printer with multiple colors- one of the new diamond heads- either 3x w. CMY or RGB or 5x (with CMYK and clear/white or RGB-Blk-White). Then you can print full color. We would have an even more restrictive no-touch policy, but we can also offer a training class in it only once every 3 years so that no one will be able to break it. This sounds like not many classes, but it’s approximately twice as often as we have training classes on the other printers 
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Maybe we just need well-trained people capable of repairing some of the simple issues and getting them back into service quicker.
Is it a Laser DLP, maybe?
Maybe. But it does a whole layer at a time. Actually there are not discreet layers in their technique which is the important part. The site explains this. It’s actually continuous as it scanned trough it like you are scanning through an object in a z dimension. This also let’s you do away completely with support structures for the most part.
The innovation was adding contact lens polymer to the bottom instead of glass which is permeable to oxygen. This allows a thin layer of oxygen in the polymer on the order of microns. Oxygen inhibits polymerization. So then the actuator arm just pulls up slowly while the projected image changes smoothly and there polymerization starts a micron or two in so it doesn’t adhere to the bottom. Then you don’t need a laser to penetrate through to the interface Andy is much faster.
They have several polymers- from super stiff to support flexible. And only the super strong polyacrelate needs a second finishing step -is baked in an oven. There’s not a finishing solution like Ib ours. They call it CLIP I think for continuous layer integrated?? Polymerization or something like that.
Digital Light Projection. The technology has been used for many video projectors going back to the late nineties or early aughts. In the last few years they have started using laser light sources in commercial projectors because changing lamps sucks, and the brightness varies over the life of the lamp. It would be very plausible to use DLP and a (UV?) Laser light source to do this.
as chair: yikes the price
as a 3d printing lover: drools
I was reading up on it. It appears to use a DLP-like technology (maybe not technically DLP, TI still holds that patent) and an IR laser.