You May Get Your Own 3D Printer Sooner Than You Think

3d printers are hitting the consumer market and they're not cheap. But then, neither were PCs when they first hit the consumer market. Quartz notes that companies are innovating ways to get the prices down fast:

Meet the Replicator 2. She's top of the line, for home 3D printers, and she'll cost you $2,200, not including shipping.

That's about what a good PC cost in the 1980s. And the parallels between the personal computing revolution and the one in 3D printing are irresistible (they've been made countless times in all the usual places). Ok, so these things don't do much more than print out easily-breakable, rough-hewn plastic tchotchkes, but watch out! Someday we'll use them to solve the really big problems.

Now meet the Pirate3D printer, care of a startup in Singapore. It claims that once it launches, it will be the "world's cheapest" 3D printer, at around $350 apiece.

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Comments

[Rich]

It's been leaked that Holder is giving them out at his off-the-record media get-together.

[Alyna_Cleo]

uptil I looked at the bank draft four $8493, I have faith ...that...my father in law woz like realie taking home money in there spare time online.. there neighbor had bean doing this less than 7 months and as of now paid for the loans on their mini mansion and bourt a top of the range Renault 4. go to, Click Here

[Jordan]

Seems legit.

[NeonCat]

If I was going to bourt a car it wouldn't be a Renault, not least because they don't selt them here.

How is a "mini mansion" different from a house?

[Warty]

Until I can print a Kelly Lebrock, I'm not interested.

[Hugh Akston]

Until I can print a Kellie Martin, I'm not interested.

[Warty]

Way to ruin the joke, Hugh. God.

[Generic Stranger]

You sure about that?

Might take an awful lot of plastic...

[Killazontherun]

My bros company The Belgium American Consortium bought a 3d printer start up recently. He will be getting his own printer soon.

[Brett L]

Trying to talk the gf into letting me buy my 2nd.

[Auric Demonocles]

Just print it.

[califernian]

Trying to talk the gf into letting me buy..

Wait. WTF?!??!

[CosmoWenman]

I can't wait until they make a 3D printer that can 3D print comments about how the first thing I'd 3D print with a 3D printer would be a 3D printer.

[Hyperion]

I will have one soon. If a good one comes down below $2000, I'm in.

[AlmightyJB]

Remember its not the printer that gets you. It's the "ink". That's why they practically give ink jets away.

[Hyperion]

Tell me bout it, man. I found a way around that though. Now I buy 5 each of the 4 ink carts for $20, instead of paying $50 for one of each. They're reconditioned, but they work just as well as the new ones.

[Hyperion]

Now meet the Pirate3D printer, care of a startup in Singapore. It claims that once it launches, it will be the "world's cheapest" 3D printer, at around $350 apiece

Chuckie Schumer is all wee-weed up.

[NeonCat]

Maybe they can 3D print him a mra for his moobs. That should bring him around.

[Hyperion]

BRO! No wait... Manziere!

[Adam.]

Instead of going through expensive distributors, we're chosing to form the world's first bit-network for physical products. It is called the Pirate-Distribution-Network or PDN. More information will be revealed in time to come!

seriously, are they trying to steal all the bit-torrent tropes?

[The Late P Brooks]

I'd still rather have a mill, if that's okay.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

I'd take a couple of mill too

[Corning]

I just want access to one to replace all those stupid plastic bits nearly everything i own have and when they break even though they are a 50 cent piece of plastic turn my stuff to garbage.

[IceTrey]

Put them in a container with a little acetone on a hot plate and they won't be rough hewn for long.

[LaserTek]

Interesting and sounds appealing. I wonder if any ranging company has or will take the patent for 3D printing. I mean like, company such as Samsung or HP maybe. Urgh. I believe that that will make this techno expensive if ever.