The 'toner' used in the laser sintering process is rather more expensive than that found in a laser printer cartridge.
The pair had the prosthetic made with a laser sintering process.
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In essence, these guys use a specialized laser cutting process that can etch out anything your brain can muster -- from band logos to company mantras.
However, the company, which uses a laser deposition process to make nanomaterials for use in components to be sold to networking equipment players, faces a tough battle.
This is a formidable undertaking: the process involves laser-scanning the caves, creating millimetre-perfect fibreglass replicas, and then painstakingly repainting each fresco.
Ott immediately thought of an additive manufacturing process called direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) that she had encountered in her work at a major aerospace company.
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Can we say that a high-tech process like 3D printing, or laser cutting, or laser sintering, or pick any new tech, is not manufacturing for a new age?
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He believes that combining his laser-cutting with Dr Holden's software, and automating the whole process, could both reduce waste dramatically and cut the turnaround time from months to days.
The process involves slathering on a carbon-based lotion, which absorbs the laser light and damages the hair follicles.
The process developed by the team at North Dakota State University is known as Laser Enabled Advanced Packaging (Leap).
The entire process is something to behold, but our favorite component was quite possibly the laser-engraving station.
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It is in the process of shutting down its inkjet printer operations in order to concentrate on the faster growing laser printer and multi-function device markets.
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Such snapshots, which are captured by using pulses of laser light a few femtoseconds long rather than by physically clicking a shutter, are able to catch molecules in the process of reacting together.
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