Canon aims to make impact in 3D printer market

However, while the company showed off samples printed with the prototype at Canon Expo, an event for its customers in Paris this week, the machine itself was a no-show. It’s still somewhere in Japan, staff said, and is probably at least two years from commercialization.

Although it doesn’t yet make its own 3D printers, Canon already sells them: Two years ago it began reselling models from 3D Systems in Japan, entering the European market in February this year.

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