Most printing companies see no use for 3D printing. Yet some of the largest “2D” technology providers are involved with 3D printing: Canon, GIS, Heidelberg, HP, Kodak, Konica Minolta, Ricoh, Xaar, ...

I hope that my previous post opened your eyes to the uses of 3D Printing that are all around us, and some of the ways it can help inside a production print organization. Today, I want to look at ...

Bill Decker is chairman of the Association of 3D Printing, the largest trade organization in the industry. Ten years ago, few desktop computers lived far from a 2D printer. Even in today’s ...

Engineering researchers have developed a 2D printing process using liquid metals that they say could create new ways of creating more advanced and energy efficient computing hardware that is ...

2D material-based cooling system. Credit: ACS Nano, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b04202. Copyright 2019, American Chemical Society Extrusion-based 3D ...

Many futurists and forecasters project that 3D printing will become dominant in manufacturing. Yet additive manufacturing is more than 2000 times smaller than the overall manufacturing industry.

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3D printing is obviously best used in printing three-dimensional objects. Laser cutters, jig saws, and CNC routers are obviously well-equipped to machine flat panels with intricate shapes out of ...

If you ever wanted a reason to have DC lighting pointed at the spinny part of your mill and lathe, [Bill] tells a great story. One day, he noticed the teeth on his lathe chuck would change color – red ...

3D printing of complex objects typically takes a long time due to the printing process necessarily laying down a large number of 2D layers to build up the object. The process usually wastes a lot of ...

Inkjet printing of two-dimensional crystals will be crucial for ushering in the next generation of printed electronics. While the technology has made a lot of progress in recent years, a major ...