April 2021
Beginner
261 pages
9h 58m
English
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OUTSOURCING
VERSUS BUYING
YOUR OWN 3D
PRINTER
7
CHAPTER
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In 2016 for the first edition of this book we stated that people were comparing the then-current state of 3D
printing to where personal computers were in the 1980s. Now in the second edition of this book we can
report….that things have only marginally gotten better. Printing at home is still fraught with problems where
your prints may fail for any number ...