Apparatus and process for producing additive manufactured metal matrix composites and articles of manufacture thereof

A system for producing a 3-D metal object, comprising:

• an inkjet printer configured to print individual layers of a file of layers of the 3D metal object with fluid onto a plurality of sheets of composite substrate material, each sheet of composite substrate material representing a shape of the 3-D metal object at a particular layer;
• a trough containing a mixture of powdered metal and flux, the trough configured to flood at least a portion of the mixture onto each sheet of composite substrate material to produce a plurality of composite powdered sheets, the powdered mixture adhering selectively to the fluid on each composite powdered sheet as a printed shape;
• at least one composite powdered sheet, the powdered metal adhering selectively to the fluid on each sheet of the composite substrate material as a printed shape;
• a removal device to remove excess powder from each composite powdered sheet after each composite powdered sheet is first printed by the inkjet printer and subsequently flooded with said powdered metal and flux;
• a fixture constructed to stack the composite powdered sheets in registered alignment, after excess powder removal, to form a stack of said composite powdered sheets, wherein each sheet in the stack of composite powdered sheets corresponds to a layer in the file of layers.