XYZprinting Inc. (三緯國際) will be bringing its da Vinci 2.0 3D printer to Taiwan mid-April, the first part of a global roll-out focused on conquering the low-cost 3D printing market
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April shipping date set for ‘da Vinci’ 3D printer
March 4, 2014, 12:13 am TWN
TAIPEI, Taiwan — XYZprinting Inc. (三緯國際) will be bringing its da Vinci 2.0 3D printer to Taiwan mid-April, the first part of a global roll-out focused on conquering the low-cost 3D printing market, a company executive said Monday.
At just US$649, the second-generation da Vinci printer is headed for store shelves in the United States, China, Japan and Europe in the second quarter of the year, when the Taiwanese firm plans to add a new production line for its entry-level 3D printers, said Gary Shu, senior manager of market development division at XYZprinting.
“Our current production capacity cannot keep up with strong customer demand,” Shu told CNA on the sidelines of the International Symposium on Additive Manufacturing, held at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in Taipei.
Shu said that with a new production line, the company will be able to roll out 10,000 3D printers each month.
In the meantime, it is working on ways to apply the 3D printers in local schools and universities and developing models that print on new materials rather than the commonly-used Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) plastic, Shu said.
The da Vinci 2.0 comes with a smaller build volume of about 6 by 7.8 by 7.8 inches compared with its predecessor. But the device has two extruders, meaning it can print in two different colors at once.
XYZprinting, a joint venture between two subsidiaries of local electronics conglomerate Kinpo Group, has set its global sales target at 100,000 printers in 2014 and 1 million over the next three years.
The company’s entry-level da Vinci 1.0, impressed the public and judges at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where it earned an Editor’s Choice Award from Reviewed.com thanks to its US$499 price tag.
Judges praised the da Vinci 1.0 as an “affordable and approachable 3D printing” device, comparing it to products from other brands that use the same fused filament fabrication (FFF) technology but generally cost over US$1,400.
3D printing is the automated process of making a three-dimensional solid object of virtually any shape based on a digital model. The technology promises big changes in the design, prototyping and manufacturing processes in a wide range of industries.
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