Re: [OM] 3-D printing, was: New photos up

[Frank Wijsmuller]

There will be many 'powers that be' trying to disrupt this spread of 3D
printing.

It will take a whole new approach on intellectual rights I think, when
people all over the world will exchange their designs (just files),
breaching every copyright law as we know them. So the machines could be
very advanced, but if that means you can buy them?

But it sure is interesting, and a potential thread to the Chinese (and
other manufacturing countries/ companies).

It will get very interesting if they make household size printers that will
be able to integrate different materials in one 'print'.

Time will tell.

Best, Frank.


2013/3/9 Chuck Norcutt

> The aim of the article was to make a claim that 3-D
> printing is advancing and growing so fast that it will soon be a threat
> to the Chinese dominance of manufacturing of many items due to Chinese
> low cost labor.  The claim was that 3-D printing will soon be able to
> reproduce many of these items with quick turnaround, higher quality and
> essentially no labor.
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