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Jeffrey Braverman

WRITTEN BY ANNA KAZIUNAS FRANCE

The new printers are much more polished than their predecessors — but are they as consumer-ready as their finish and packaging suggest?

2014 HAS BEEN A FULL-THROTTLE YEAR FOR 3D PRINTING SINCE JANUARY’S CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW (CES) introduced us to dozens of new machines. It’s clear that additive fabrication has caught the attention of major brands in all sectors (Adobe, Microsoft, Hasbro, Dremel) and the push for the mainstreaming of this technology has hit a new plateau.

Although there’s been a lot of hoopla, most of the changes to actual functionality have been small; with ...

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