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                                                                              owadays it is difficult to imagine a life
                                                                              without printers. We use traditional
                                                                        Nprinters for studying, work, or
                                                                         entertainment almost every day. It is very
                                                                         convenient to have a possibility to print
                                                                         digital information, such as text or image, on
                                                                         paper and then use it for different purposes.
                                                                         Nevertheless, it is much more convenient
                                                                         to have a possibility to print real tangible
                                                                         objects, which can be used in everyday life.
                                                                         The technology of 3D printing gives such
                                                                         possibility and starts a new era of printing,
                                                                         manufacturing, and life.

                                                                         The emerging technology of 3D printing is
                                                                         very promising as it opens new possibilities
                                                                         for customization and starts a new era of
                                                                         so called “social manufacturing”. The main
                                                                         idea of such manufacturing is to establish
                                                                         a framework that will allow customers to
                                                                         create products based on their tastes and
                                                                         preferences. People will buy digital models of
                                                                         products, change and modify them according
                                                                         to their tastes, and then send the information
                                                                         to local 3D printers to get real products.
                                                                         With 3D printers, it will be unnecessary
                                                                         to build large plants to produce some
                                                                         products, which would otherwise pollute the
                                                                         environment and deplete natural resources.
          THE                                                            This environmentally friendly technology
                                                                         will be much better than the current one,
          TECHNOLOGY                                                     as it requires less raw material, energy, and
                                                                         cost. Furthermore, it makes businesses more
                                                                         flexible because each product item can be
           OF 3D PRINTING                                                manufactured differently without costly
                                                                         retooling of company’s equipment. Specialists
                                                                         have been using 3D printers for more than
                                                                         ten years to develop prototypes cheaply
           The emerging technology of 3D printing is                     and quickly before manufacturing real
           very promising as it opens new possibilities                  products at the plants. Yet, it was impossible
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