A system is provided for high volume print-forming of structures made up
of multiple separate layers. A support bed is provided which has multiple
steps arrayed thereon at different heights. Substrate blocks rest upon
each of the steps. A printing process is utilized to print material from
which the structures are to be formed down onto the substrate blocks.
This printing process prints different layers onto each of the substrate
blocks. The substrate blocks then move to a different step on the support
bed and the printing process is repeated. Each support block has a
partial structure thereon which receives its next successive layer in
each printing cycle until the partial structure becomes a completed
structure by having each of its layers sequentially printed thereon.
Subsystems are provided for moving the substrate blocks upon the support
bed and for properly holding and aligning substrate blocks upon the
support bed.