Remember your first computer? Mine was a Macintosh 128K back in 1984. It was amazing technology back then, but somewhat limited. If you remember, the biggest application was word processing. It took years, a decade or two even, to make it a bit more than a glorified typewriter. Although, many will argue that even today we are still not using the computer to its full capabilities. It took a while before this device became commonplace in a business environment.

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Technology doesn’t always immediately hit its stride. Additive manufacturing, 3D printing, is just the latest example of this phenomenon.

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Many users still operate under the hype of what 3D printing is, and they don’t understand, truly, what are the cool applications, said Kunal Mehta, head of consulting at Blueprint, or even what are the basic applications, such as jigs, fixtures, and prototyping. Kunal Mehta, head of consulting at Blueprint, a […]

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