What are the advantages of 3D printers, especially the differences with traditional printers?

Rapid manufacturing, technical integration, economic benefits, wide application fields, and complete reproduction of three-dimensional data. These are the advantages of 3D printing technology over traditional printing. With the development of technology, more advantages of 3D printing will be discovered.

1. Rapid manufacturing: 3D printing technology is an effective means to manufacture complex prototypes or parts in concurrent engineering, which can synchronize product design and mold production, thus improving the R&D efficiency of enterprises, shortening the product design cycle and greatly reducing the cost and risk of new product development.

2. Technology integration: The integration of design and manufacturing has always been a difficult point. Computer-aided technology can't completely seamlessly connect with CAD and CAM, while 3D printing technology integrates CAD, CAM, laser technology, numerical control technology, chemical engineering, material engineering and other technologies, which makes the concept of integration of design and manufacturing perfectly realized.

3. Economic benefits: Compared with traditional processing methods, 3D printing technology shortens the product development cycle of enterprises, greatly reduces the problem of repeatedly modifying design schemes in the process of new product development, basically eliminates the problem of modifying molds, and creates obvious economic benefits.

4. Wide range of applications: After years of development, 3D printing technology has basically formed a system. Similarly, the applicable industries are gradually expanding, from product design to mold design and manufacturing, material engineering, medical research, culture and art, construction engineering and so on. 3D printing technology is gradually being used.

5. Fully reproduce three-dimensional data: the parts manufactured by rapid prototyping completely reproduce three-dimensional modeling, and the modeling can be completed truly and accurately regardless of the special-shaped surface of the outer surface or the special-shaped hole of the inner cavity, and basically no external equipment is needed for repair. Traditional printing also requires external equipment.