"The Alaris™30 will enable firms to enhance their competitiveness by applying the most advanced in-house rapid prototyping capabilities available. It allows enterprises to create models with an unprecedented degree of
detail while shortening design cycles, reducing cost of errors, promoting team creativity and further ensuring confidentiality - all from the desktop."
Adina Shorr, CEO of Objet
Objet 3D Printing Technology Goes Desktop
New Alaris™30 Printer Offers Unprecedented Detail, Cost Efficiency and Ease-of-Use for Desktop 3D Printing
Objet announced the launch of its newest printer, the Alaris™30. The office-friendly system - small enough to fit on a desk - prints true-to-life parts with exceptional detail, including "finished-quality" smooth surfaces and moving parts.
The Technology Behind the Innovation
The groundbreaking innovation that is the foundation of the Alaris™30 is Objet's market-leading PolyJet™ Photopolymer Jetting Technology, which achieves high accuracy and resolution (600 x 600 dpi) by jetting proprietary FullCure photopolymer materials in 28µ layers. Similar to a line printer, the jetting head slides back and forth along the X-axis depositing a single layer of photopolymer onto the build tray. Each layer is immediately cured and hardened by UV light, producing fully cured models that can be handled immediately without additional post-curing.
Using a VeroWhite model material and the gel-like FullCure Support material, the Alaris™30 print heads synchronously jet identical amounts of materials onto the tray. The geometry of the support structure enables complicated geometries, such as cavities, overhangs, undercuts, delicate features and walls as thin as 0.6mm. When the build is finished, the non-toxic support material is easily removed by water jetting or by hand, and the model is ready for fit, form and function testing, or a variety of immediate
applications such as painting, drilling, chrome-plating or use as molds for tooling.
Office-Friendly and Easy-to-Use
Designed for high productivity as well as high accuracy, the Alaris™30 operates like a network printer, serving the needs of multiple designers throughout a firm. In addition, the system's 300 x 200 x150mm build tray allows large models or many small parts to be built simultaneously - saving time and money - and its four cartridge loading permits up to 36 hours of unattended printing.
The Alaris™30 requires only simple printer management with no special electricity requirements. Like other Objet models, it also utilizes the Objet Studio™ software to ensure easy operation and allow designers to turn any 3D CAD file into a highly accurate model with just a few mouse clicks.