Epson President: “Home-based 3D plastic printing has no great future. We will only do commercial 3D printers. ”
Epson President Minoru Usui (Minoru Usui) last week gave an interview to Fairfax Media, in which he told how she sees the future of the company and what new products she will focus on in the near future.
Usui Minoru said the company was already developing 3D printers and wearable electronic devices similar to Google Glass and Samsung Galaxy Gear, especially focusing on the health aspect and tracking various indicators of a living organism in real time. Intelligent smart watches are likely to be presented as early as January at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, and the equivalent of Google glasses will appear in the next few years.
Epson 3D printers will be aimed at commercial use and large-scale production, and not at home printing plastic models by enthusiasts and individual designers.
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“Three-dimensional printing of a“ home ”level is a very limited niche that will not have a sizeable scale for the market, partly due to restrictions on the types of materials [mainly ABS and PLA plastic] used to create objects.”, Minoru noted Usui. People actively buying the popular MakerBot are too inspired by the February speech of Barack Obama, in which he promised great prospects for 3D printing, Mr. Usui added.
Epson CEO also boasted that in the period from 2010 to 2012, the company registered 17,890 patents and in 2013 was included by Thomson Reuters in the list of the 100 most innovative companies. A huge number of technological patents allows the company to remain one of the leaders in the market of home and commercial inkjet printing. For example, in the third quarter of 2013, Epson became the third in the wide-format printer market.
Usui Minoru said the company was already developing 3D printers and wearable electronic devices similar to Google Glass and Samsung Galaxy Gear, especially focusing on the health aspect and tracking various indicators of a living organism in real time. Intelligent smart watches are likely to be presented as early as January at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, and the equivalent of Google glasses will appear in the next few years.
Epson 3D printers will be aimed at commercial use and large-scale production, and not at home printing plastic models by enthusiasts and individual designers.
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“Three-dimensional printing of a“ home ”level is a very limited niche that will not have a sizeable scale for the market, partly due to restrictions on the types of materials [mainly ABS and PLA plastic] used to create objects.”, Minoru noted Usui. People actively buying the popular MakerBot are too inspired by the February speech of Barack Obama, in which he promised great prospects for 3D printing, Mr. Usui added.
Epson CEO also boasted that in the period from 2010 to 2012, the company registered 17,890 patents and in 2013 was included by Thomson Reuters in the list of the 100 most innovative companies. A huge number of technological patents allows the company to remain one of the leaders in the market of home and commercial inkjet printing. For example, in the third quarter of 2013, Epson became the third in the wide-format printer market.
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