Until there is a CHEAP good scanner available having a cheap printer is almost useless for the masses. Not everyone wants or can sit down with a 3d design program and get what they want. And most 'stuff' on thingistuff is just about as useless. What mere mortals NEED is the Earl Grey Tea replicator. They need to put a coffee cup in their scanner and say I need another one of these and the printer should be able to produce it. When that day happens we will have reached the masses, in the mean time its back to my design program so I can get this last project printed before I go to bed tonight. Russ