3D printing just got a lot faster

摘要

If the plastics processing industry was an animal kingdom, 3D printing would definitely be the tortoise. Steady, yes, but almost agonizingly slow. But what if you could stick a hemi engine under the tortoise's shell? A start-up headquartered in Silicon Valley, Calif, has just achieved the metaphorical equivalent with the launch of a new 3D printer that can create objects 25 to 100 times faster than competing products.