May 25, 2022

Salt Lake City Media Report on 3D Printing at University of Utah’s Marriott Library

From KSL Television:

“We are printing 24/7 right now, but we haven’t been doing that for a long time so we are still identifying how to deal with it,” said IT supervisor TJ Ferrill [at the J. Willard Marriott Library].

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The cost is $5 a cubic inch, Ferrill said. Depending on the size of the project, it could take a few hours to print.

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The Huntsman Cancer Institute printed a mold for a prosthetic foot, Ferrill said. The plastic and plaster process can be thousands of dollars, but the printer made it happen for a few hundred.

Read the Complete Article

Note: Identical Story, Two Still Images (via Deseret News)

Learn More: Marriott Library’s 3D Printer Information Page

See Also: 3D Printing LibGuide (via Marriott Library)

J. Willard Marriott Library 3D Printer in Action (via KSL Television)

About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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