By Brian Heater, Tech Crunch
The medical industry has long been considered one of the most promising sources of growth for industrial 3D printing. It makes sense — getting a good fit requires the sort of exact measurements that can be accommodated by scanning and printing. Dental, in particular, has been a key driver, perhaps most notably in the case of Invisalign, which houses a warehouse full of printers.
Today at the Rapid 2019 conference in Detroit, SmileDirectClub announced that it’s making a major investment in HP’s industrial Multi Jet Fusion systems. The warehouse of 49 printers marks the largest deployment of the systems in the U.S. They’ll be put work around the clock, churning out teeth-straightening molds[…]