CLIP System and HP Multi Jet Fusion Offer New Possibilities for Additive Manufacturing

Innovations in additive manufacturing promise to make 3D printing more user-friendly. The Continuous Liquid Interface Production system has the potential to work up to 100 times faster than current stereolithography (SLA) when printing complex models. The HP Multi Jet Fusion printer will also work significantly faster than existing 3D printers, with possibility of bestowing a number of different properties upon print material by incorporating chemical additives into the mix.
According to the article from Engineering.com:

What separates CLIP from SLA is that between the base of the tray and the resin pool there’s a “tens-of-microns” thick layer of oxygen. In essence, the CLIP system removes the peeling process that occurs after each layer is cured in traditional SLA processes. That means that CLIP systems can continuously “grow” parts rather than stopping between layers. Hence the massive increases in build speed.

The HP Multi Jet Fusion printer also works quicker than other available models:

[…] In a performance presentation held at the Inside 3D Printing conference earlier this year, HP’s J. Scott Schiller wowed the audience with one stat in particular. Over the course of 38 hours HP’s engineers pitted their machine against leading FDM and laser sintering technologies to see how many identical gears they could produce. Once time had elapsed the tally looked like this: FDM 460; SLA 1000; Multi Jet 12,600.

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