Toshiba Metal 3D Printer - Coming in 2017

[Brian_Krassenstein]

Toshiba and its machine tools unit, Toshiba Machine, have announced that they have developed a prototype for a new metal 3D printer that promises to be ten times faster than most metal printers on the market today. The printer, which Toshiba also says can print larger objects at a lower cost than other metal printers, will be unveiled at a Tokyo trade show at the beginning of December and should be on the market by 2017. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/107820/toshiba-metal-printer/

[curious aardvark]

well it's not ten times faster than existing metal deposition machines. Just the sls powder cube types.

But the powder cube types can print shapes that metal deposition can't - so you can't make a direct comparison anyway.
it's all relative :-) (my phrase of the day)