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The development of 3D printing machines is racing ahead and they will be down-scaled for home use, so that consumers can instantly create thousands of objects at the touch of a button.
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Before long Drumm read a story about Makerbot, a startup based in New York making affordable 3D printing machines, and within months he had saved up enough money to buy his own 3D printer.
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Many specialise in making complex and valuable equipment for factories, such as cigarette-rolling machines or printing presses.
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The price of steel in particular fell by 80 percent between 1880 and 1900, with resulting knock-on effects in the prices of everything from pots and pans through sewing machines to printing presses.
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The strike turned up 4 million pieces of fake Microsoft products, plus machines such as replicators and printing presses.
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For a start, the technical difficulties of reintroducing a national currency, reprogramming computers and vending machines, minting coins and printing notes are huge (three years' preparation was needed for the euro).
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But Heidelberger Druck has a comfortable market share of 40%--twice its nearest rival--of the machines that are responsible for printing such things as Vogue's fashion layouts and unlit Coca-Cola signs (and the European edition of this magazine, too).
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As researchers, they were inspired by the promise of 3D printing technology but frustrated by the price tag and complexity of truly high-quality machines.
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Weinberg points out that even before consumer 3D-printing became fashionable, gun enthusiasts were already making their own metal firearm components with computer controlled milling machines and posting their designs to sites like CNCguns.com.
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