The side of 3D printing often shown by mass media is either the desktop plastic printing variety, printers shown making toys and other tchotchkes, or the Ripley’s Believe It or Not variety, printers shown printing houses, guns, and food. On the one extreme, the prints aren’t framed as all that useful and, on the other, the technology is mostly a sideshow act. In between those two poles, 3D metal printing is a technology with very utilitarian possibilities. Metal, as we’ve come to know, is really useful and the ability to print metal objects would make it possible to replace valuable car parts, create unique jewelry, or prototype awesome inventions with greater ease.…
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