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I used to teach at a school.
We bought an expensive 3d printer.
It was nice and all.
But what really bothered me,
was that the printing material was very expensive.
I am absolutely convinced, that the manufacturers,
cannot make a bigger mistake, than to make the printing material expensive.
They should go the opposite route.
Make using their products super easy and effective.
Make using their printer a no-brainer.
Every time people print.
They are advertising the printer.
Whoever is doing the 3d printing,
is getting to know that printer.
Learning how to use it
Getting used to using it.
Getting ideas on how to use it further.
Nobody wants a printer that can barely be used anyways.
The manufacturers were doing the cash-it-in-and-run.. approach.
But they should have been doing the, take-over-the-universe.. approach.
Which is to make their products absolutely awesome.
People will see how the world is, eventually.
And 3d printing really should be done in some specialized offices.
A place with a 3d printer.
And some individual who knows how to operate it.
And people just go on a website,
And send a file and press "print"
And result can be delivered in the mail.
Prefereably via drone.
An office like that could provide the world with 3d printing abilities.
Could eventually offer the world to print in any material etc.
You just draw it in some program.
Select material.
Press print.
Few days later, its in your mailbox.
How is that not a win.
And user could watch on camera as their unit is being printed.
And why dont we have automated drone delivery yet.
Whats taking so long.
But it seems to take forever to take off.
This 3d printing thing.
Like everything.
Last edited by offtherock (2025-09-28 03:43:36)
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Its in the manufacturers short term interest.
for its printer to be printing with material
only they or their partners can make.
and is then sold expensively.
so its in their short term interest.
to kill their own future.
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