I haven't read the article yet, but since I work for a multi billion dollar company that is getting their feet wet in the 3d business I think I will find it interesting. One thing we struggle with is how far should we go with this... What services can we provide our customers and what will they be expecting? Putting this out there to the masses would take a huge operation and commitment. It is such a slow process right now how do you achieve the quantities needed to make it worthwhile?

On a personal level I have thought a little about doing a side thing with 3d print. I have my own creator X and do some small products for myself that I designed. If I were to scale up I personally would rather have 20 $1000 printers, instead of 1 $20,000 printer. Sure that $20,000 printer might be a little faster, but as long as I can get acceptable quality out of the $1000 printer then I would be going that way for sure.