What HP’s Multi Jet Fusion 3D printing system might look like when it comes to market next year 

HP believes that the same technical innovations it used to drive advances in two-dimensional digital printing can take the three-dimensional kind to the next level of productivity and bring the emerging 3D printing industry along for the ride. So declared a spokesman for the company in promoting a new 3D printing solution that comes in a clear line of descent from HP’s T-series production inkjet presses.

J. Scott Schiller, worldwide director of 3D printing for HP, made repeated reference to the T-series presses in a keynote presentation before the recent Inside 3D Printing conference and expo in New York City. Schiller, who was in charge of global marketing for HP’s inkjet web presses until last year, said that much of what the company had learned about digitized manufacturing in developing the inkjet equipment was directly applicable to what it now aspires to do in 3D production.