Unique advantages over low cost FDM printers:

• Fast – up to 10X speed of FDM printers (based on LASER size)
• Cassettes allow rapid switching of materials – cassette holds metal/plastic/composite powder
• Composites up to 8X the strength of polymer alone
• Multiple objects built anywhere in build volume
• Objects can have multiple embedded moving parts
• Thin wireframe structures possible
• No need to add support structures – powder provides support
• Material cost low – bulk powder vs spools
• Higher resolution
• Hollow objects simpler and lower cost – new types of materials with a fine network of thin supports are strong yet lighter than solid – not possible to make any other way
• Material density variable within objects – fabricate flexible or spongy materials embedded along with rigid hard plastics
• Variable density allows many new products to be fabricated that have not been possible before, such as shoes, gloves, billfolds – anywhere more flexible materials need to be embedded in the product
• Parts can have multiple components integrated that are not possible to build in one piece any other way, saving assembly cost
• System can print in metal/plastic/ or composite with switch of cassette
• Input/output cassettes interchangeable
• Output cassette holds built parts in powder
• More cost effective