> 1. Just look around you: Where do... I mean, I actually see quite a few, but none of them are things that I would ever bother printing since I can just pop a

> 1. Just look around you: Where do... I mean, I actually see quite a few, but none of them are things that I would ever bother printing since I can just pop around to the store and buy a new garbage can etc... > 3. FDM printing is inherently an unreliable process Yeah, I have a well-tuned and reliable machine and it's not really cut out for long stretches of lights-out operation. Worse, most failures are at the bed/plastic interfaces. If you're printing conventionally, that's great because things fail early - but this belt process manages to stretch out the process of making that interface throughout the entire print. > FDM based printing is a dead end in the history of 3D printing I don't think so. It's a mature technology, and is already quite useful. It's not going to radically improve in terms of geometric accuracy/feature size, but materials are constantly improving and I'm excited for stuff like ASMBL, tool changing printers, and more multi-material/multi-process integration in general. I don't really see 3DP ever getting to "magical replicator" levels, so if FDM is a dead end, it has found a nice little cul-de-sac in the same neighborhood as the eventual end-game printing process.