Staples Starts Selling 3-D Printer

Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 3, 2013 @10:08AM from the slowly-stepping-into-the-mainstream dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Soon anyone will be able to head out to the store and buy a 3D printer: 'Staples, one of the leading office supply retailers in the U.S. announced it would begin selling 3-D Systems' entry level personal 3-D printer, The Cube. This is quite simply the single largest 3-D printer retail move to date by any 3-D printer manufacturer.' 'The Cube is one of a number of 3-D printers designed with traditional consumers in mind. Specifically, this unit can print items up to 5.5 inches tall, wide and long in one of 16 different colors. The retail bundle includes 25 free design templates to get users started but the real fun is designing and building something all your own.'"

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cartridge based by Lehk228 · 2013-05-03 10:13 · Score: 5, Insightful

of course it would be a proprietary cartridge based piece of shit.

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1. Re:cartridge based by EkriirkE · 2013-05-03 10:24 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  Here's the answer to that: http://www.howmuchsnow.com/cube/
  
  commentary on http://hackaday.com/2013/04/26/cube-3d-printer-hack-lets-you-use-bulk-filament/
  
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