The device uses a “totally new” method of resin-based printing, in response to demands for diversification of materials and increased durability and accuracy in 3D printers.
Canon said in a launch video shown at an expo in Paris that it has used “pioneering technology” to create a device with “the highest level of precision in the industry […] plus higher modelling speeds and faster setting times”, 3ders reported.
The resin-based lamination system is designed for rapid prototyping and manufacturing, allowing quick prototypes and small runs of the final product with reduced post-processing, using a range of resin materials with a smooth finish.
3Ders described the concept launch as “very much along the lines of “harder, better, faster, stronger, a strategy that, if it delivers on its promises, will rival the ever-increasing range of competing 3D printers and 3D printing technologies on the market”.
The OEM has also developed 3D Integrated Software to integrate multiple 3D scanners, 3D printers and other devices, handling multiple formats of 3D data.
Canon said: “Beginning with the newly-developed 3D printer, Canon will bring innovation to manufacturing processes from design to production through 3D Integrated Software, the core of 3D Data Solutions.”
The new technology is still at concept-stage, with no indication of future availability, although the news is, according to 3ders, a “promising development not only for the European company but also for the 3D printing industry at large”.
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