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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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Dates:
DateEvent
June 2016Published
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
Divisions: Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > Birmingham Institute of Jewellery, Fashion & Textiles > Birmingham School of Jewellery
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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