Meet “The Mason” – Nampa, Idaho startup Slant 3 helps firms like Amazon, Nickelodeon design and make products with a 3D Printer Farm

“Perfect teleportation” may sound like a sci-fi term, but for a Nampa 3D printing company, it’s a key to success.

Slant 3D’s prototyping printer, The Mason – which is itself 3D printed – helps companies finalize their design before Slant 3D starts printing in bulk on its array of more than 100 3D printers.

“We were in the beta for the Mason and are going to keep it,” said Ben Peterson, designer at Wacky Bobbers, which makes a line of novelty fishing bobbers. He said the company has been using Slant 3D for production of a number of its products and tried the Mason to see whether it could eliminate a delay of a couple of weeks due to shipping parts back and forth for verification sampling.