So you’ve decided to buy your shop a 3D printer for building plastic prototypes, jigs, fixtures, and other common tools of the trade. Or maybe you want to perform short-run production jobs. Whatever your reason for getting into 3D printing, the first thing you need to decide is which kind of printer to buy.

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If you have attended additive manufacturing (AM)-focused trade shows, read trade magazines, and launched internet searches about the subject, you know you have a quite a few printers from which to choose. Today there are more than 100 companies selling 200 to 300 styles of 3D printers—and this is only plastic-type models.

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According to estimates, plastic accounts for 65 to 70 percent of the 3D printing market in the U.S. Make the future with proven powders created by Praxair Price Points Prices for resin 3D printers […]

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