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Challenges: Meet the high-volume printing demands of nine architects, two draftsmen and a clerk working on numerous projects Achieve high-speed printing to meet urgent deadlines without holding up other projects Get high-quality, large format colour scans and copies of CAD plans with changes made by hand . Solution: HP Designjet T1120 SD-MFP HP Bright White [...]

3D printing – Open source hardware is now making things. Physical things you can print out, over the last few year 2-3 projects have really gained momentum and made some wonderful advances in low-cost desktop 3D printing. Projects include Fab@Home, MakerBot and RepRap. A new project was also added this year, s DIY open source [...]

The dream of regenerating tissues and organs has been frustrating biotech companies since the early days of the industry. But help may be here at last from a novel approach by San Diego-based Organovo, and Invetech, based in San Diego and Melbourne, Australia. They are “printing” living cells. Here’s the problem in growing a new [...]

Attendees of EuroMold 2009 will see a miniature sports car and a biorobotic snake designed and produced by customers of Objet Geometries, the innovation leader in 3D printing. Presentations, courtesy of Nimrod Racing and the Technion Institute, will take place every two hours throughout the duration of the event, which will be held Dec 2-5 [...]

Previous means of producing a prototype typically took person-hours, many tools, and skilled labor. For example, after a new street light luminaire was digitally designed, drawings were sent to skilled craftspeople where the design on paper was painstakingly followed and a three-dimensional prototype was produced in wood by utilizing an entire shop full of expensive [...]