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kleinbl00 · 4005 days ago · link · · parent · post: This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun
"Prototyping technologies" are those with no economies of scale. If you're injection molding, you get efficiencies when you're making 10, 100, 0r 1000. If you're printing books, you get efficiencies when you're making 10, 100 or 1000. Hell, collating is an efficiency. 3D printing is always a 1-off. Every time you make a new one, it's the same as if you were making it the first time. Just like using an inkjet printer- every time you run it, it's the same as if you were running that photo the first time. WIth "manufacturing" you can use "anything." With 3D printing you can use "soft, melty things." It will never change.