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To: trapped_in_LA
Materials are NOT just ABS anymore.

3-D printers are printing with everything from concrete to ceramics to human tissue to sintered metals now.

/johnny

12 posted on 05/06/2013 7:24:06 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

“3-D printers are printing with everything from concrete to ceramics to human tissue to sintered metals now.”

Ya, good luck getting one of those for a reasonable price. Even the do-it-yourself ABS plastic printers are running around $600-1000. I’ve seen the technology used for other materials and it’s not cheap, strictly industrial and doesn’t look to be something most people will ever be able to afford, hell be the cheap ABS printers are out of the reach of most people. Who wants to drop $1000 just to be able to print this out? Not many. If you really want to go that route you’d be better off with a good CNC machine, then you could make anything you wanted in pretty much any material.


13 posted on 05/06/2013 7:30:38 PM PDT by trapped_in_LA
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