Just about everyone is tired of the razor and blade model of inkjet printing, which seems not only wasteful for those cartridges that aren’t recycled and expensive. When 3D printing was made a desktop phenomenon, Makers proudly dispensed with this highway robbery for an open platform all around, including the filaments that might be used with desktop FFF machines. Now, the company partially responsible for wasted cartridges and dollars is about to change the way industrial 3D printing looks at materials as well.在接受采访寄存器HP CTO和HP Labs Shane Wall的主任说，他们的MultiJet Fusion technologywill have a somewhat open approach to materials.
HP’s MJF systems will hit the 3D printing space this fall, potentially having a huge impact on the 3D printing space. MJF has been described by HP as being ten to one hundred times faster than other industrial 3D printing processes, as well as around 20% less expensive and capable of producing parts stronger than FDM. Though color is an obvious benefit, it’s actually the ability to control the material properties of a printed part at the voxel level that makes the technology so powerful and versatile. Wall elaborates,“我们真的相信这项技术，我们会有一些令人难以置信的破坏性……从根本上讲，这将改变行业。我们可以更改每个体素的特征：颜色；硬度；灵活性；透明度；和印刷的电子产品。”
不过，这里的重大新闻是HP将是一个有点开放的平台。外部企业将能够使用MJF API为系统量身定制新材料。沃说，“We’ll still have print and supplies but our model will be different; we will open up the platform so people can have other supplies that come in. They’ll [other suppliers] have access to our APIs through an SDK that allows them to programme to the printer itself, and we’ll allow people to come in and do very disruptive new materials that they wouldn’t have been able to do before. [This is] very different from HP and very game changing.”
对于一个习惯于用专有材料进行挑战的大型制造商来说，这不仅是巨大的，而且对于整个行业来说都是巨大的。与2D材料在应用方面受到限制不同，3D打印材料具有巨大的实验和开发潜力。凭借惠普的物质专业知识，他们肯定能够为MJF制定一些独特的公式，但是允许其他专家在此过程中呈指数级扩展这些可能性，从而将系统从热塑料依赖的依赖性扩展到新的，未经想象的材料。开源FFF 3D打印机的发展如此之快，我们可能会看到MJF的材料也很雷电竞app下载快进化。
