The movie studio contracted the services of Augsburg-based 3D printing company Voxeljet to make replicas of the vintage ride.
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Nokia is some years away from having a new supply ecosystem based around 3D printing but it makes perfect sense to float the idea and take a de-risked approach to attempting it, starting with the shell.
Another successful example is Cerutti, a maker of sophisticated printing presses based in Casale Monferrato, near Turin.
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Now, here comes Michael Dell, vowing to turn his company's low-cost, process-based manufacturing model directly onto both the printing and managed-services businesses.
Before long Drumm read a story about Makerbot, a startup based in New York making affordable 3D printing machines, and within months he had saved up enough money to buy his own 3D printer.
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"That's the beauty of digital printing, " explained the London-based Mr. Pilotto, a digital-print pioneer.
And then VJ paints a picture of a whole back-end, cloud-based system that supports his vision of the coming role imaging and printing will play.
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The feeling in the market seems to be that, based on their statement, the Fed, sooner or later will reengage the printing presses in an effort to stimulate the U.S. economy.
Sure, there are more inexpensive examples of the technology available for this purpose, but Brooklyn-based MakerBot has possibly done more than any company out there to help introduce 3D printing to the masses.
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At least seven companies are expected to show 3D printers at CES 2013, demonstrating the potential benefits of the technology for a wide swath of industries and users. 3D printing uses an additive process to create an exact physical duplicate of a product based on a digital model.
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The New York-based MakerBot has emerged as a pioneer in the burgeoning field by making home 3-D printing relatively affordable.
This year, however, saw a relative deluge in 3D-printing representation, with strong showings from 3D Systems, FormLabs, MakerBot and the cloud-based 3D printer, Sculpteo.
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