Affordable metal 3D printing may be here sooner than we thought, thanks to a new Seattle-based company by the name of iro3d. Announced earlier this year, the American startup has gone public with a beta version of their metal 3D printer priced at $5000. Although that may sound like a lot when plenty of desktop plastic printers are available on the market for under $500 nowadays, a retail price of $5000 is still virtually unheard of in the realm of 3D printed metal. Available for U.S. pre-oders from May 2018, the company reported in June that “production of the pre-ordered printers is on-schedule.” It has shipped to four customers in recent months. A company in Hong Kong is currently testing the machine and has expressed an interest in becoming a reseller in Hong Kong and mainland China. The three other customers are one Canadian company, and two independent customers […]

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