Ink-Jet Printing of Photopolymers Materials: An Emerging Rapid Prototyping Technology

3D printing using UV curable compositions is an emerging technology developed and perfected at Objet Geometries Ltd. which combines Ink-jet and UV-Curing technologies to build 3-dimensional objects directly from CAD (Computerized Aided Design) data. This technology being far less expensive than traditional rapid prototyping technologies is also office-oriented and has high accuracy (+1- 200 microns). Advances in 3D printing and UV curing technologies today enable the use of materials with mechanical properties ranging from hard and tough to flexible and elastomer-like.