HP TO SELL 3-D PRINTERS

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http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2010/04/19/daily25.html
HP TO SELL 3-D PRINTERS 
Stratasys Inc. shipped the first 3-D printers made with the
Hewlett-Packard  brand under a deal first publicized in January.The
printers will go on sale in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United
Kingdom next month.Minneapolis-based Stratasys  developed the printers
with Palo Alto-based H-P . H-P, which has a 3,500-employee campus in
Roseville, plans to sell them in the mechanical design market.

Three-dimensional
printers use inkjet type technology to make solid models of machine
parts and other complex shapes by “printing” them, layer by layer. Users
can then test and assemble models of devices to see how well they work
before making more costly components.These printers can make a model
directly from a CAD, or computer aided design software, file.Scott Crump
is chief executive officer of Stratasys. The company says it came up
with the term “3D printer” when working with IBM Corp. in the 1990s

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April 26, 2010 at 10:19 AM