14 DAY TRIAL // Many of the 3D printers I write about are the type that consumers can buy and use at home, but there are many that are already serving various industrial sectors. Now I've learned that a new range of 3D printers of the latter type are coming.
That's what California-based manufacturer OK International and Chinese 3D printing company TierTime Technology promise anyhow.
The former has bought a small stake in the latter, and intends to co-develop a series of industrial 3D printers.
Said printers would be released before the year is out, maybe before the fourth quarter even. Since TierTime Technology Corporation is the largest 3D printer maker in Asia, they could pull it off.
Until then, the Dover Corp. business unit will have the Quant 3D for sale, a new 3D printer made for both the professional segment and the industrial market. Even that one is 15 days away though, so we won't know anything about it until mid-month. Only that, apparently, it's pretty tiny.
Obviously, it is an FFF printer (fused filament fabrication), otherwise known as fused deposition modeling (FDM), but that's all we can guess. Presumably, it could be used by toy makers and artists to make prototypes, preliminary models of their designs, and by engineers to test how well a new cog or other part would fit in a machine.