3-D printers

[Big-Un]

Consumers Reports has this on 3-D printers. Seems to be getting cheaper for the public.


http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/...ters-go-mainstream/17387256001/2596077901001/

 

[Newton Pens]

The printer fails are pretty dramatic though - and time consuming.

http://epic3dprintingfail.tumblr.com/

 

[Gargoyle]

I've heard stories of the big high end 3D printers jamming up and the resin hardening inside. With some of those machines a resin reservoir can hold tens of thousands of dollars worth of material.

 

[GTJC460]

In the jewelry business there are about 4 low cost (under $20k) machines currently on the market. These machines are selling from $3k up. I'm not really crazy about the quality of the prints coming off any of them, but that's because I come from using CNC mills to make my models. I'm currently running 4 of them for my custom jewelry manufacturing. The surface quality of the print vs cnc just isn't good enough yet to justify the purchase for me. Plus there's quite a lot of issues still being worked out on using the machines for jewelry.

Just my 2 cents.