If you want to make many of an item, you should not 3D print but instead use traditional mass-manufacturing techniques. Or so the mantra says.
But we think that’s no longer true.
If you want to mass manufacture something there is still a big cost to “set up” a manufacturing line to do so. But what if you want more than one, but less than a million of an item? Would you spend the set up cost? Probably not.
There’s a market for 3D printing limited quantities of identical objects in addition to custom one-offs. If you want ten, a hundred or maybe a thousand “things”, you still might be better off 3D printing them.
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