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Article: 3D scanning and printing technology: printing technology taken to the next--3d--level, aided by hand-held, high-resolution scanning.(Company overview)
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- GEO: connexion
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- May 1, 2009
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Z Corporation makes products that enable users to capture, edit, and print 3D data with unprecedented speed, ease, versatility and affordability. Their product lines includes the world's fastest high-definition 3D printers--machines that produce physical 3D models from digital data in full colour--and handheld portable 3D scanners that digitize 3D surfaces in real time. Z Corp. technology enables a wide range of applications in manufacturing, architecture, civil engineering, reverse engineering, geographic information systems (GIS), medicine and entertainment. This article looks at that technology and some interesting applications in which it is used.
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