One sunny Bank Holiday Sunday evening during Spring 2016, a young 3D printing journalist was having a leisurely old time with her friends in a pub in Liverpool. It would be around 10.30pm, with half an hour to spare until the last train home, before she would realise she'd messed up her Google calendar, and was now just six hours - not 24 hours - away from needing to leave for the airport for a two-night trip to Barcelona. A panicked rush ensued, the train was just about caught, and a suitcase was hurriedly packed.
Alright, fine, it was me.
The trip, it would turn out, would be worth the last minute scramble. And not just because of the cured jamón tasting and rooftop pool of the Mandarin Oriental hotel. Rather, it would mark the launch of HP's Multi Jet Fusion technology, and a new major player in the additive manufacturing (AM) space.
In Boston this week, at RAPID + TCT - the same event where it officially unveiled its technology to the public all those years ago - HP is reflecting on the decade that has since passed.
