3D- PRINTING

KISHALAY DATTA
Internal
 Imaging and Printing Services
Fall of Conventional Imaging and Printing
• Cloud printing and cloud faxing have changed printers fax machine s from being assets
that must be owned to resources that a re-accessed only when needed

• Mobile devices like smartphones and tablets have made e-papers and e-books access easy

• Presence of Managed Content Services(MCS)

• Evolution of Managed Print Services(MPS)

Future of Imaging and Printing
• Additive manufacturing

• Disruptive impact on how products are designed, built, distributed, and sold

• Sales of 3D printers grew 200 to 400 percent every year between 2007 and 2011

• Newer uses of 3D printing could enable unprecedented levels of mass customization, less-
costly supply chains, and even the “democratization” of manufacturing

• 3D printing can create objects from plastic, metal, ceramics,paper, and even living cells.

• With 3D printing, an idea can go directly from a file on a designer’s computer to a finished
part or product, potentially skipping many traditional manufacturing steps
Courtesy:- Disruptive technologies by MGI (2013)
Hype Cycle for Imaging and Print Services

Courtesy:- Disruptive technologies by MGI (2013)

3D Bioprinting: Analysis
• Description: A system that scans, designs • Benefit Rating: Transformational
and prints functioning human cell/organs
• Market Penetration: Less than 1% of
• Fusion of medicine, engineering and IT
target audience

• Maturity: Embryonic
• Uses: U.S. Department of Defence, is
• Sample Vendors: Organovo (functional
developing a system that will print skin onto
burn wound human tissues using proprietary 3D

• Cost: Bio printed kidney would cost $180k bioprinting technology)

compared $80k needed in kidney transplant

Years to mainstream adoption 

< 2 years 2 to 5 years 5 to 10 years > 10 years
Transformational

3D Bioprinting
Consumer 3D Printing: Analysis

Description Market Penetration: < 1% of target audience.

• Additive technique
• “Makers” – Enthusiasts and Entrepreneurs
• Create physical objects from digital
models(created from computer aided designs) Maturity: Emerging
Uses
• Consolidation of technology providers
• Product prototyping and short-run parts
manufacturing • 2015, 7/50 large multi national retailers
Cost will sell 3D printers in physical or online
• Over last 5 years one-off and customized
pieces on devices priced less than $1,000 store

Benefit Rating: Transformational Sample Vendors: 3D Systems; Formlabs;

• Earlier two 3D Printing categories now three MakerBot; Mcor Technologies; Stratasys

Years to mainstream adoption 

< 2 years 2 to 5 years 5 to 10 years > 10 years
Transformational

Consumer 3D Printing
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