3D Printers Now As Cheap as Laser Printers Were In 1985

General Fabb [2008-10-30 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 [2008-10-30 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 [2008-10-31 09:01 AM]

It's almost like swardley knew what he was talking about back at Euro Foocamp in, what, 2004?

jillcatrina [2008-11-01 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 [2008-11-02 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!