Do the New, Low-Cost Photopolymer 3D Printers Now Becoming Available Have a Place in the Jewelry Manufacturing Environment?
Cooper, Frank (2016) Do the New, Low-Cost Photopolymer 3D Printers Now Becoming Available Have a Place in the Jewelry Manufacturing Environment? In: Santa Fe Symposium, Albuquerque NM USA.
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With the recent ending of a number of patents, along with a burgeoning home 3D
printing movement (e.g., Fab@Home,1 RepRap2), a huge and confusing number
of new, low-cost ‘home-user’ or ‘consumer-level’ printers have arrived onto the
3D printing scene. A possibly useful spin off from this for the jewelry industry
has been the emergence of a number of, principally but not exclusively, low-cost
digital micro-mirror device (DMD) printers.3,4 Many of these have been developed
specifically for or are capable of printing in castable resins (photopolymers),5
which are ideal for use in the jewelry lost-wax casting process. The second section
of this paper will compare the quality of the printed outputs from two or three of
these lower-cost DMD printers. The third section will begin to examine the quality
of the castings produced from the prints.
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| Subjects: | CAH10 - engineering and technology > CAH10-03 - materials and technology > CAH10-03-07 - materials science CAH10 - engineering and technology > CAH10-01 - engineering > CAH10-01-01 - engineering (non-specific) CAH10 - engineering and technology > CAH10-01 - engineering > CAH10-01-10 - others in engineering CAH10 - engineering and technology > CAH10-03 - materials and technology > CAH10-03-02 - materials technology CAH25 - design, and creative and performing arts > CAH25-01 - creative arts and design > CAH25-01-05 - others in creative arts and design |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > College of Jewellery, Fashion and Textiles | ||||
| Depositing User: | Frank Cooper | ||||
| Date Deposited: | 08 Sep 2017 09:43 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 12 Jan 2022 17:20 | ||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/4655 |
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