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I think that there is a means of doing laser printing in powder that avoids the issue of resin. I learned a little about it from working at an operation that put liners into industrial piping. The issue would be scale of operations and cost as generally those parts were run for aerospace orders creating airducts, special medical orders and engineering equipment. The only issue is the staff needing to wear the environment suits and masking up in order not to breathe in the powder or track it on their clothing but with the tech used for fumes around resin and the cleaning of loose particles it’d be easy for home use. As far as I saw the issue with supports is eliminated as the powder not hit by laser fusion acts as solid (powder) encasement. With more of the fear removed from the material standpoint I think that more people would jump in on the creation aspect. The only issue would be the powdered plastics needed. That might be interesting for better recycling as I had a friend who worked in a plastics recycling facility that recieved separated material by composition and shipped then back out again for reuse.

We aren’t afraid of plastics and a different form would just be sitting around the hobby den like plaster for model train terraniacs. This might be a branch off into material exploration as companies like Reaper did in switching some business from metals.