(Quoted from 3Ders.org. Full article here.)
Every four years since 1951, Messe Düsseldorf, a German trade fair organizer, has hosted drupa, the world’s largest printing equipment exhibition. Typically, the focus of the exhibition has remained on 2D paper printing equipment, but this year a surprising number of exhibitors, including some of the largest company presences, were toting a newer kind of printing: 3D printing.
Of course, this is not the first time that 3D printing technologies have been exhibited at the quadrennial expo, but drupa 2016 marks the most significant showcasing of additive manufacturing technologies, with companies like Kodak, Massivit, Canon, and many more demonstrating and effectively selling their various 3D printing products.
Kodak, as we know, recently partnered with Carbon (formerly Carbon3D) to develop the latter’s CLIP based M1 3D printer. Specifically, the imaging tech company helped Carbon to develop its UV photo initiator resins, and is planning on developing more resins for the M1 3D printer in the future. While Kodak exhibited many of its products at drupa, particular attention was drawn to a number of samples printed with the M1 3D printer. Japanese imaging tech company Canon was also in attendance, as they were showcasing a number of 3D Systems’ 3D printers, which Canon is distributing...