It can perform high quality 3D printing like other printers available in the market, but at almost a tenth of the cost.

León3D, a Spanish company specializing in 3D printing, has come out with ‘Lion Crewer’, an innovative printer using photolithography on liquid resin.

This machine produces high quality printing that is comparable to that of the most expensive equipment on the market using powder sintering. But it applies a new technology: printing with acrylic resin. The result is a professional finish and products that are comparable in quality to others in the market but at much lower cost.

The process of photolithography works using an ultraviolet laser beam that solidifies a photosensitive liquid resin stored in a reservoir into the desired shape. This is repeated layer after layer, with each layer hardening on top of the previous one, until the desired object is created in 3D. The product of this technology is very high quality, allowing users to create complicated geometric shapes but much more easily compared to other printers that work by extruding plastic filament. The new printer can obtain a resolution of up to .05 millimeters per layer.

The technique is based on superimposing the transverse sections of a three dimensional object, which are generated with a CAD system that cuts the designed object into slices in order to be printed.