HP Remaking the Landscape of 3D Printing

Until now, the language of 3D printing has been lacking in three noteworthy terms: high productivity, low cost of parts, and reliable quality. With HP’s development of HP Multi Jet Fusion technology and the new HP Jet Fusion 3D printers, the industry vocabulary is expanding – and a new era of manufacturing is under way. HP’s Jet Fusion 3D 3200/4200 printers represent long-awaited progress in speed, quality, and economics. And the revolutionary HP Open Platform approach to materials development is driving broader adoption of 3D printing. Read more, and download HP's whitepaper on the technology, at 3DPrint.com: https://3dprint.com/172448/hp-remaking-the-landscape/

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in what universe is a machine costing over $100,000 ever going to produce low cost parts ?

At the end of the day it's just another multi jet printer.

Lets really look at this:

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Based on internal testing and simulation, HP Jet Fusion 3D printing solution average printing time is up to 10x faster than average printing time of comparable FDM & SLS printer solutions from $100,000 USD to $300,000 USD on market

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So they are NOT comparing it to a comparable multijet system. But to sls and fdm - totally different processes.

costing:

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Based on internal testing and public data, HP Jet Fusion 3D printing solution average printing cost-per-part is half the average cost of comparable FDM & SLS printer solutions from $100,000 USD to $300,000 USD on market as of April 2016. Cost analysis based on: standard solution configuration price, supplies price, and maintenance costs recommended by manufacturer. Cost criteria: printing 1-2 build chambers per day/ 5 days per week over 1 year of 30-gram parts at 10% packing density using HP 3D High Reusability PA 12 material, and the powder reusability ratio recommended by manufacturer.

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Is there a $ 100,000 fdm machine out there ? Probably something like the baam, that can print an actual full size car - ie: with a massive build volume. So again, they haven't done any comparisions with similiar multi jet machines.
ie: at no point have their statements included existing printers with a similiar printing technology, of which there are quite a number these days.

And any time a company is scared to compare their machine to the ACTUAL competition, you know it costs more to run and is probably no faster.
It has no clever powder handling - post processing requires a machine bigger than the actual printer.
There really isn't anything either groundbreaking or industry leading in this machine. Which is a shame.
If hp had instead aimed for the home/desktop market they could have really done something innovative.
This is just copying existing machines.

What's needed, if hp are serious about having any bragging rights, is a head to head print-off between a hp jet fusion machine and a say an objet connex 500 - the actual competition.