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Re:Continuous 3D Printing Possible With Transparent Polygon ... by rasz on Monday August 05, 2019 @07:59PM (#20620619)
laser printers use rotating mirror instead of galvanometers
Re:Continuous 3D Printing Possible With Transparent Polygon ... by antisemiotic on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @02:33AM (#20622732)
I was to a couple additive manufacturing exhibitions and conferences, and generally the people from the metal 3d printing industry seem to call all laser pointing devices "galvanoscanners", regardless of actual construction.
Re:Continuous 3D Printing Possible With Transparent Polygon ... by hexa_storm on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @02:50AM (#20622801)
rotating mirrors are too fast for laser industry, it requires a very fast switchable laser, like the one developed by european union https://www.razipol.eu/
Re:Continuous 3D Printing Possible With Transparent Polygon ... by antisemiotic on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @07:51AM (#20624295)
Rotating mirrors here means continuously rotating, not precise rotation to some particular point? I misunderstood then, yeah, that kind of mirrors aren't used there (I think).
Re:Continuous 3D Printing Possible With Transparent Polygon ... by hexa_storm on Monday August 05, 2019 @08:28PM (#20620793)
they use glass lenses and infrared, cross scan error must be quite significant due to long separation distance between polygon and substrate.