Xerox’s market entry in 3D printing was a muddled and confusing affair.
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A mention at an investor conference lead to us realizing that the company had bought metal dripping startup Vader Systems . So Xerox wasn’t going to be working with inkjet heads or going to do something like Evolve Additive with thermal heads, laser or toner, it wasn’t going to do polymer but instead metal. And in metal, it wasn’t going to try join the binder jet hype train but instead do something new. And that new thing wouldn’t be something that Xerox itself had developed but it was going to be something that they bought. It all felt a tad bit rushed.
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My initial foray into exploring their metal parts wasn’t promising either, the half centimeter high objects seemed a better fit for Hackaday than Formnext. The thing about the Vader technology is by having a technology […]
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