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3D Printers Now As Cheap as Laser Printers Were In 1985Check out this perception altering post on the Ponoko blog. It really puts the current state of 3D printers in context: they're now cheaper than laser printers were in 1985. It almost dares you to think of when you first saw a laser printer, and when your company first got one, and when you first owned one, and .... The implicit trajectory is irresistible. Open questions: how will the natures of design, commerce, distribution, manufacturing, and recycling cope with widespread mass distributed manufacturing? (PS, surfing the Ponoko site I found this awesome Nerd Brain Necklace)
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Comments: 6
General Fabb [30 October 2008 06:37 AM]
There is indeed a lot of developments in 3D printing recently, as prices are lowering and quality and features are dramatically increasing. The Desktop Factory device is hopefully coming out in 2009, and there are others from $10,000 and up. I'd say we are more in the "Dot-Matrix" era of 3D printing rather than the "Early Laser Printer" stage.
If you want to follow developments in the 3D Printing industry, you might consider our blog (Fabbaloo) at http://fabbaloo.com
David [30 October 2008 02:52 PM]
It would be neat to see a price-over-time chart overlaying price of laser printers, 3-D printers, and DNA sequencers.
Or correspondingly, the price to print per page, per gram, per base-pair. (Is gram even the right unit for evaluating 3-D printers?)
Dave Cross [31 October 2008 09:01 AM]
It's almost like swardley knew what he was talking about back at Euro Foocamp in, what, 2004?
jillcatrina [ 1 November 2008 12:30 AM]
3D printing also known as rapid prototyping transforms a blueprint on a computer into a real object by building up a succession of layers. The material is bonded by either fusing it with a laser or by using alternating layers of glue. When it first emerged in the mid 1990s, futurists predicted that there would be a 3D printer in every home.
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Mark Harris [ 2 November 2008 11:54 AM]
Ponoko = good fun!
I'm very interested to see where David and co take this company. Outsourcing never really appeals to me, but neither does investing in laser-cutting infrastructure that I'll use maybe twice a year.
As for the printer, WANT!
Kamagra [30 July 2011 06:37 AM]
I’m still waiting for some interesting thoughts from your side in your next post.