
Specifically targeting dental applications, the company has even developed a set of FDA-approved dental materials, including the zDENTAL IDB for indirect bonding trays and the zSG Amber for surgical guides and brackets. UNIZ also has more than 40 patents to its name, which cover both the high-speed printing technology and the firm’s own range of resins. Photo via UNIZ.īased in San Diego, UNIZ has slowly crafted a name for itself in the resin 3D printing space, now offering an entire portfolio of LCD 3D printers for the professional market. The UNIZ SLASH 2 PLUS is designed for high-speed dental 3D printing. The machine also comes complete with the firm’s new UNIZ Dental slicing software, a high-speed print preparation program designed for high-throughput dental printing. With the goal of combining speed and precision to streamline digital dentistry, the Slash 2 Plus is primarily aimed at dental professionals and labs for applications such as custom aligner models, model trays, surgical guides, crowns, bridges, night guards, and more. The professional-grade LCD machine is based on the company’s original Slash 2 3D printer, and sports an 8.9” 4K Mono LCD screen, UNIZ’s patented LED light engine, and a second-generation liquid cooling system. It has an XY resolution up to 150μm, and is reportedly 500 times faster than FDM machines at a similar price point.UNIZ, a manufacturer of desktop 3D printers, has begun shipping its new resin-based Slash 2 Plus system. The Slash OL, meanwhile, is aimed at a more entry-level segment of the market and comes with a price tag of less than $1,000.

The first of these printers is the Slash+, a direct follow-up to the groundbreaking first-generation model, which is now able to achieve astonishing printing speeds of 640mm per hour in z-axis build speed.

There are four new models in all, each aimed at a slightly different audience, but still capable of demonstrating the impressive new speed Uniz is so proud of. As its creators note, “by reducing the up-and-down peel to one-directional peel action, UDP sets a new world record of 3D printing speed to over 700mm/hour z-axis speed, without the necessity of pure oxygen or exotic separation materials.” Having debuted its impressive Slash 3D printer, capable of printing 50 times faster than other models, at CES 2016, manufacturers Uniz are back at the Consumer Electronics Show again - and they have some more impressive tech to demonstrate! The California-based company has lifted the lid on a new series of 3D printers, this time promising speeds of hundreds of times that of conventional 3D printers. To do this, it uses a technique called “Uni-Directional Peeling” (UDP), which minimises the peel time of the conventional layered stereolithography (SLA) process.
