HP Remaking the Landscape of 3D Printing

[curious aardvark]

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:

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

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

costing:

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.

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.