Stratasys Inc. shipped the first 3-D printers made with the Hewlett-Packard brand under a deal first publicized in January.
The printers will go on sale in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom next month.
Minneapolis-based Stratasys (Nasdaq: SSYS) developed the printers with Palo Alto-based H-P (NYSE: HPQ). H-P, which has a 3,500-employee campus in Roseville, plans to sell them in the mechanical design market.
Three-dimensional printers use inkjet type technology to make solid models of machine parts and other complex shapes by “printing” them, layer by layer. Users can then test and assemble models of devices to see how well they work before making more costly components.
These printers can make a model directly from a CAD, or computer aided design software, file.
Scott Crump is chief executive officer of Stratasys. The company says it came up with the term “3D printer” when working with IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) in the 1990s.
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