Interesting question. I assume you are thinking about a stereolithographic printer that cures photosensitive polymer one layer at a time. I don't know if the laser is powerful enough to cure resin, but that may just dictate how fast you can go. A laser printer mechanism only exposes one line of dots at a time and depends on the paper moving to expose the next line. Either the print head or the resin bath would need to move horizontally in one direction. And the part in the resin bath must move down one layer at a time (or everything else must move up). These motions are hard to implement without disturbing the resin surface which must remain flat. I can imagine a giant turn-table where the part pedestal sweeps past the print head once per revolution and the pedestal goes down a few microns for each revolution of the turn-table, so the entire 3D printer machine is geared off a single drive motor, and the print head is a stationary laser printer head. Or the print head moves while the pedestal goes down - either way just a single drive motor.
Interesting question. I assume you are thinking about a stereolithographic printer that cures photosensitive polymer one layer at a time. I don't know if the laser is powerful enough to cure resin, but that may just dictate how fast you can go. A laser printer mechanism only exposes one line of dots at a time and depends on the paper moving to expose the next line. Either the print head or the resin bath would need to move horizontally in one direction. And the part in the resin bath must move down one layer at a time (or everything else must move up). These motions are hard to implement without disturbing the resin surface which must remain flat. I can imagine a giant turn-table where the part pedestal sweeps past the print head once per revolution and the pedestal goes down a few microns for each revolution of the turn-table, so the entire 3D printer machine is geared off a single drive motor, and the print head is a stationary laser printer head. Or the print head moves while the pedestal goes down - either way just a single drive motor.
you considered the other aspect than the 3-axes 3D filament printers. Me not. But as far as I know the polymer needs a UV laser and - instead of the more easy laser engraving or laser cutting - resin polymers needs a specific wave length. Despite the power of the laser printer.
