Davide Sher

Founder and editor in chieft, 3D PRINTING BUSINESS DIRECTORY
Milano, Italia

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  • "It's not just the OLO, it is a common problem to all 3D pritning and in particular crowd funded 3D printing projects: promising so much and not delivering. Announcing a project before it is a product is the number one marketing mistake (if you are honest). It works great if you are a fraud or in a few very rare cases of truly great products that nobody had thought about. I disagree with Paul Goad about resins replacing FDM. Resins are evolving but most are very far from offering truly end use product quality. The only really good ones are incredibly expensive and patented. FDM is the only affordable technology that can offer end use materials. I also disagre with Drew Lopold that you can use the OLO to print overnight. First, many of us need access to their smartphones overnight as well. Second, the reason why this project captured the imagination of so many is because it gave the illusion of instantly available products. Unfortunately nothing is farther from the truth. I find that projects like the OLO, like so many others before it, are damaging to the industry and to the people that work in the 3DP indusry in that they raise expectations and destroy the true market for 3D printing, which is by far the most amazing manufacturing technology ever invented and yet it needs to be integrated with so much experience and other technologies to fully exloit its potential. That is why, in general, I do not cover kickstarter projects and especially this project on my websites or the 3d pritning news websites I write for."
    on: The $99 3D Printer: a Pioneering Product or Design Misstep?
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