Machined tooling contributes to the majority of production costs for many small-run jobs. 3D printing can reduce the cost of plastic cores, molds, and tooling, but there are several considerations to ...

UMass Lowell's proprietary rubber 3D printing machine is "one of one" in the world, according to Ph.D. candidate Haley Dobbyn ...

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY (Dec 5, 9:15 a.m. EST) — A new laser-marking process is attempting to do what has been difficult in the past: Use a laser to print in color on a plastic part. Until now, using ...

DSHQ, a local 3D-printing supplies and services store, is looking to sell 3D printers and teach their customers how to use ...

Among 3D printer owners, “spaghetti” is the common term for the tangled mess of stringy plastic that’s often the result of a failed print. Fear of their print bed turning into a hot plate of PLA ...

The DoD wants to turn battlefield garbage into useful parts for soldiers. Researchers at the Army Research Laboratory have taken recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from bottles and plastics ...

Photocurable 3D printing, widely used for everything from dental treatments to complex prototype manufacturing, is fast and precise but has the limitation of being fragile and easily broken by impact.

With a few notable exceptions, the majority of objects removed from a 3D printer bed are fashioned using plastic. But plastic has a nasty habit of ruining our environment at the end of its useful life ...