http://www.powerretail.com.au/technology/3d-printingnext-retail-revolution/ Australia's news and information resource for e-commerce retailers. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:11:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://www.powerretail.com.au/technology/3d-printingnext-retail-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-9710 Tim Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:10:47 +0000 http://www.powerretail.com.au/?p=24997#comment-9710 I’m sorry, do you think that big manufacturers will be at all interested in making cost effective printing materials? Of course they won’t, that’s where they’ll look to gouge everybody, just like in ink jet printing.
No, the real future of this technology is with the open source movement, keeping away from proprietary solutions that’ll suck the life out of this technology and tie it up with patents before it even gets started. It’s cost effective now – there are already projects to take old PVC bottles turn them in to extrusion plastic, which has the additional effect of adding value to recycling rubbish. Support that sort of thing, not outrageously expensive proprietary commercial ‘solutions’.

]]> http://www.powerretail.com.au/technology/3d-printingnext-retail-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-9696 Duann Wed, 22 Aug 2012 03:53:28 +0000 http://www.powerretail.com.au/?p=24997#comment-9696 Check out Shapeways-dot-com to see how this is already unfolding…

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