The 3D Printers of CES: Extruders, Nozzles, and Metal Medium (hackaday.com)

szczys writes: It's that time of year again, the Consumer Electronics Show leaks out of every media crevice. Although we've passed peak 3D Printing hype for the general public, the 3D Printer offerings being shown are notable in one way or another. Makerbot continues to flounder with questionable extruders, Lulzbot continues to excel with dual extrusion and by supporting a wide range of print materials, 3D Systems has an uber-expensive direct metal printer, but the entry level printer price floor keeps falling.

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Nozels for printing metel, or just plasstec?

[mpoulton]

The nozel-based printors may be cool new technolligy, but can they print metel with a nozel yet? So far I have only seene plasstec printid via nozel, and metels can only be printid using laisre cintering. It would be a maijer advance in rapped prototaiping if metel objicts could be fabrecaited with an extruzhen-like addetive prawsess. You know, like with a nozel. Whew. That was hard to write.