HP has released its latest professional-grade 3D printers, the Jet Fusion 300 and 500. Available in both color and black and white models, these 3D printers are among the first to offer full color ...

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The 3D printers, new Jet Fusion 300/500 series, runs on the same Multi Jet Fusion platform as its industrial HP Jet Fusion 3200/4200/4210 products.

But they’ve been quietly building 3D printers aimed at commercial customers. Now they are moving out with metal printers called — predictably — the HP Metal Jet.

The printers themselves will begin shipping in 2020, with "broad availability in 2021." Desktop Metal, for its part, has pushed back availability of its production machines from this year to 2019.

HP Inc. also announced the new HP Z 3D Camera at $599 for OMENs, Z desktop workstations, ZBook mobile workstations and the Spectre 15 x360 (2018) , which the company says will “empower visual ...

Additive-On-Demand Drives Adoption There’s a fifth bottleneck for additive’s growth: Total cost of ownership. Industrial 3D printers cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Smaller companies may ...

In the end, MakerBot says that these industrial parts and technology allow Method to print "up to 2x faster" than other desktop 3D printers, with an accuracy of "± 0.2 mm or ± 0.002 mm per mm of ...

Hewlett-Packard claims to have solved the two biggest problems with today’s 3D printers and will make its first big technology announcement in that area in June, CEO Meg Whitman said Wednesday.

There are plenty of reasons desktop 3D printing never really took off with consumers. Speed isn’t the main one, but it’s certainly up there. Mind you, this research is still probably a few ...