Just as the technology has improved, a new Kickstarter launching today suggests the prices are also going to be dropping, potentially making SLA 3D printing a contender for the 3D printer technology that finally knocks FDM off of its market dominance. The Slash 3D printer from UNIZ Technologies.Ĭarbon and NewPro3D offer two examples of this new breed of lightning fast SLA 3D printers. Super-fast light-curing resin 3D printers have started popping up in the last few months with the ability to 3D print at blistering speeds that can be almost 100 times faster than most SLA printers. But as with any technology, given enough time the quality will always get better and the price will always drop. While Formlabs has found quite a bit of success with the Form 1 and the subsequent Form 2, the relatively high price of their light-curing resin 3D printer has kept it and the handful of imitators who came after them from replacing FDM printers, despite higher resolutions, fewer printing errors and faster printing speeds. By the time Formlabs launched their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign for their desktop stereolithography 3D printer there were already more than a hundred different brands and models of FDM printers.
Not only was the technology relatively cheap, but the parts were easy to get, and the materials were easy to come by. Fused deposition modelling has pretty much been the desktop 3D printing industry standard since dedicated RepRap makers started working with the technology over a decade ago. It is starting to look like we’re entering a new phase of 3D printing that may make standard FDM desktop 3D printing virtually obsolete.
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