When will the Replicator 3 be announced?

[Newbie101]

Anyone have any idea what MakerBot is planning to do with their next 3D Printer? I had hoped to hear something about the Replicator 3 by now.

[ronnytedeski]

My guess is that we will see something from them sometime in 2014. Perhaps a whole new line of printer as well, other than the Replicator line.

[DerekPeterson]

Do we even know if there will be a Replicator 3? I could seem them totally changing the names around to be honest...

[BakerEvan]

My guess is that we will hear something from Makerbot by mid 2014, but probably won't see it released until late 2014 or early 2015. Again, this is only a guess, and your guess is as good as mine.

Evan

[Geoff]

Anyone have any idea what MakerBot is planning to do with their next 3D Printer? I had hoped to hear something about the Replicator 3 by now.

Following along the same lines as the Dot Matrix Era, to Bubble, Ink and laser printers the next step would most likely be a standard 3 colour head, which some are already doing. I really don't want a tri-colour head anyway, as I want something that blends colours together - like an extruder blender. You feed say, Red and blue filament into it and get purple prints . I've tried, its not so simple :/