First Ever 3D Printing Consumer Trade Show

Technology changed the world, most changes were to improve, while others came up the other way around. Now our era will somehow be change once more, as 3D printing technology finally reaches the crowd. The world's first ever consumer 3D printer show entitled 3D Print Show, was held in the City of London a few days ago. There you'll find the most influential and big names in the industry of 3D printing, and a few interested consumers who happened to see a 3D printer in action for the first time.

In 3D printing, the process basically involves the use of  a special print-head that can create a three dimensional object by repeatedly adding layers on top of another layer base from the given CAD (computer aided design). With the engineers, it can be able to produce plastic models, miniatures, sculptures, and so on, depending on what the user designed. Using our playful minds, we can say like for example you broke a component or a particular part of your equipment, just visit the manufacturers website and they'll provide you the code you need to print a replacement. Isn't that a mind blowing, world changing idea? 

Industrial designers, programmers, and engineers are collaborating to bring the 3d printing technology to wider consumers. Good news cause if you can afford to own a Macbook for yourself, then i suggest you write the words "3D printer" on your list. The opportunity to see a 3D printer while it amazingly turns an image from the computer into its three dimensional form is definitely a jaw dropping experience. Too bad I wasn't able to attend the show, actually I have no opportunity at all.

MarketBot Industries, a 3yr old desktop 3D printer manufacturer was given a dedicated room. One of their known manufactured printer is MarketBot Replicator 2 which costs about £1,400. They opened their first retail store in Manhattan. 

Since 3D printers now reached the consumer price brackets could it possible that a high number of purchased will be expected before the year ends. CEO Bre Pettis, one of three co-founders of MarketBot Industries tells the audience, "This is the most exciting time ever to be an engineer, an industrial designer, an architect. This technology has arrived to the point where you can make the things you want. The electronics are there to support it... This whole idea of an industrial revolution where you had people move out of the cottage industries where they worked at home and they went to the factory where the machines were. All of us here, we've kind of put the factory into a little box. The factory can be one person at home again."

For those manufacturers, this can be a great opportunity for their profit margin, but the fact that these equipments are nonetheless producing plastic trinkets, a material from which we're struggling to get rid of use, in order to save our planet.Our landfills if not full by now, will soon be, with all those wastes mostly composed of plastic materials. Laser and inkjet printers, uses laser toner cartridges and ink cartridges,  unlike 3d printing technology that uses mainly plastic to produce output. The good thing about laser and inkjet printers is that, their consumables are now reprocess and recycled, producing remanufactured toner cartridges and ink cartridges which are environment friendly.

Anyway, back to the 3D print show, it was an awesome event that people won't regret coming over, with all the amusements and fashion show it featured, one thing's for sure, it can definitely change the world.

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