Prodways' Unique 3D Printing Process

It's always interesting to examine a 3D printer with an entirely new process for producing objects. One may think there's only a few processes, but in fact companies often invent new methods. 

We spoke with Prodways President Raphaël Gorgé (seen above with the M350) and Head of Research & Development André-Luc Allanic to learn more. 

Prodways uses a resin process, similar to other manufacturers, but there's a huge difference. 

Resin 3D printers use photo-curable liquid resin, often solidified by a moving laser light. Sometimes a DLP projector is used, where a complete array of 1024 x 768 "pixels" is solidified in one shot. With the DLP approach you can focus the array on a small area to produce objects with super-fine accuracy (but only 1024 x 768 resolution). Such systems are lousy at making large objects because the resolution worsens as the same DLP array is simply focused on a larger layer area. 

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