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$499 3-D Printer Drew Plenty of Attention at CES (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on Monday January 27, 2014 @05:35AM from the next-year-maybe-we'll-have-4-dimensional-printing dept.

3-D printing is far from new, but a $499 3-D printer is new enough to get a bunch of people to write about it, including someone whose headline read, CES 2014: Could 3D printing change the world? XYZPrinting, the company behind the da Vinci 1.0 printer, has some happy-looking executives in the wake of CES. They won an award, and their booth got lots of attention. This is what trade shows are all about for small and/or new companies. Now the XYZprinting people can go home and pump out some product -- assuming they got a lot of orders (and not just attention) at CES.

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Yeah yeah by NaughtyNimitz · 2014-01-27 05:45 · Score: 5, Insightful

But what will the cartridges cost? And will they 'expire' each time I unwrap and insert one?
("Nudge nudge, wink wink HP?")
Why is it so cheap? by Predanuke · 2014-01-27 05:50 · Score: 5, Informative

Because it doesn't use the standard filament. http://www.xyzprinting.com/en/... You have to buy the 'ink' from them.
"So you buy the filaments from us...." by macraig · 2014-01-27 05:51 · Score: 5, Insightful

Proprietary consumables? Seriously? When are we gonna get past this crap? Ever?
Re:3dnewsen article - auto translated? by devjoe · 2014-01-27 06:07 · Score: 5, Informative

Specifically, it appears to be a translation-and-back-again of the LA Times article which is the first link in the article, or an automated synonym-substitution (trying to avoid being detected as copyright violation for reposting stories in full, perhaps, though strangely they link to the original article at the bottom). The other articles on their site (see Latest USA News sidebar on the right) appear to have undergone the same process.