It turns out that every printer can be identified by its prints, even between machines of the same make, resin, and settings.

In a paper, “ThermoTag: A Hidden ID of 3D Printers for Fingerprinting and Watermarking,” published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, a research team led by Jin ...

To achieve this, most production operations will make the production parts in a consistent manner: the exact same type and ...

also known as 3D printing, carry a unique signature from the specific machine that fabricated them. This inspired the development of an AI system which detects the signature, or "fingerprint ...

This precise line of thinking is how the paper “PrinTracker: Fingerprinting 3D Printers using Commodity Scanners” (PDF link) came to be. This research, led by the University at Buffalo ...

AI is able to determine the origin of 3D-printed parts, down to the specific machine that made them. <br /><br /> ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers use AI to detect origin of 3D printed parts - enabling the monitoring of ...

In a paper, "ThermoTag: A Hidden ID of 3D Printers for Fingerprinting and Watermarking," published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, a research team led by ...

A new artificial intelligence system pinpoints the origin of 3D printed parts down to the specific machine that made them. The technology could allow ...