HP designjet 3D printer (German site) check the video

http://h10088.www1.hp.com/cda/gap/display/main/index.jsp?zn=gap&cp=20000-13698-16013-15259-27018^304024_4041_5__&jumpid=ex_r11400_de/de/ga/ipg/hpipgemeawukawgagsbdesignjet3d/ps/g_generic&k_clickid=EMEA|18|4235|5af619a2-b4fc-8528-0a6c-000009a6b26a

by senthilnayagam • 14 years ago

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h10088.www1.hp.com

stephengillie• 14 years ago

The video shows a functional crescent wrench. This is clearly HP's answer to Z Corp's popular video.

The video mentions a price of €12,500 ($16,500?), and it looks like 2 units - 1 to print items and 1 to clean off excess material added in the first step. The first is the size of a college fridge, the other is as big as a laser printer.

(Just guessing, sorry I can't read German)

NonEUCitizen• 14 years ago

I think the second step is to wash away filler material so that the you can make things with moving parts.

icegreentea• 14 years ago

It looks like an ultrasound cleaner. The operator didn't add any water though.... but we don't get to see the back side of the machine. Oh well.

senthilnayagam2• 14 years ago

Second could be for Hardening as there were two powders added as well

zemo• 14 years ago

it looks more like an acid bath for dissolving the support material. It printed out with a white support structure, and in the end they list the volume of support material used for the structure.

sschueller• 14 years ago

I wonder how HP will prevent users from using generic ABS and supplies.

nickpinkston• 14 years ago

This wrench has been a standard industry demo part for like 15 years, but by "functional" you mean it open/closes - not so much can actually be used to turn bolts. That's really the holy grail of 3DP - to actually be able to use things you print in real applications - beyond visual prototypes.

diminish• 14 years ago

I know 3D printing will change the world, except prototyping does anyone see any other use case?

cdawzrd• 14 years ago

Repair. Plastic bit broken on your car / appliance / device? Grab a model from the web and print a new one.

nixarn• 14 years ago

Exactly! The material need's to get better, but soon instead of having storages of spare parts we cab just keep a digital record, and print up whatever part you'd need. Soon we could have a small store that sells any car part ever made.

PhilRae• 14 years ago

Your kid wants the latest toy- download the design and print. Christmas retail supply issues sorted.

Hopefully in the future, the basic 3d printer will go beyond plastics and allow printing from some hardier durable material (nanotubes maybe), then you'll be able to pretty much download a design and print anything.

zacharypinter• 14 years ago

* Kitchen utensils - I'm sure there's tons of things at Bed Bath and Beyond that could be made by current or slightly larger 3D printers.

* Desktop goodies/organization - paper inbox, laptop stand, pencil holders, phone docks, etc. If the material is strong enough (and the printers are big enough), I'd love to be able to print a cool lcd monitor swivel/stand (something like the ergotron.com products).

tathagatadg• 14 years ago

Remember this article sometimes back on HN http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/01/filesha...

I specially liked the idea of printing food. Not the glorious goal of ending world hunger(still need the ingredients right?) - but the fact that I won't have to drag my ass to kitchen. Write a cron job, that'll download recipe and print food!

jeffbarr• 14 years ago

Custom-made adapters, connectors, interfaces.

Think of situations where there are lots of varieties in the two interface points,creating enough combinations to make production of all of them economically infeasible. You can combine two "ends" and print a custom part.

kristiandupont• 14 years ago

I could see this as a threat to LEGO..

rbanffy• 14 years ago

For the German-challenged:

http://h10088.www1.hp.com/cda/gap/display/main/index.jsp?zn=...

nsomething• 14 years ago

This is a rebranded Dimension/Stratasys product. The crescent wrench is the standard built-in test part for the Dimension line.

http://www.uprint3dprinting.com/

Also, who did the marketing video for this? Need to add them to my rolodex

HP designjet 3D printer (German site) check the video

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