If you’re perusing Staples’ website anytime soon looking for boring old printer cartridges or what have you, you may be surprised to see a listing for 3D Printers. A 3D printer, for the uninitiated, is a device that’s capable of producing a three-dimensional object from a digital design. It employs additive manufacturing — a layered process that bears some similarity to the way an ink-jet printer sequentially layers its colors on a flat piece of paper. In this case, though, the layers are plastic that acquire mass as they accumulate.
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3D Printing: Sparking an E-Commerce Revolution
Posted by: Patrick Nelson September 2, 2013 05:00 AMIf you’re perusing Staples’ website anytime soon looking for boring old printer cartridges or what have you, you may be surprised to see a listing for 3D Printers. A 3D printer, for the uninitiated, is a device that’s capable of producing a three-dimensional object from a digital design. It employs additive manufacturing — a layered process that bears some similarity to the way an ink-jet printer sequentially layers its colors on a flat piece of paper. In this case, though, the layers are plastic that acquire mass as they accumulate.