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@timchubb all those things could be overcome if there was a commercial demand for them. It’s the demand that’s lacking. Someone would need to find a reason for people to have one in their house, if the only reason is to print miniatures the market will remain relatively small.

I don’t know whether GW would ever make the switch to a purely digital format, it’s really hard to predict the effects that disruptive technologies might have, it would be driven by the extent to which the technology disrupts. However, the conditions required for it happen even hypothetically, are many years away I think.

Now, if someone somehow decides that the future of kitchen items is 3D printed knives, forks and utensils (literally just pulling ideas out of my arse here) for or something like that then you might see a rapid improvement in the technology because suddenly everyone would want or eventually even need a 3D printer. But without that impetus the rate at which the technology will advance will be relatively slow and will likely just ride on the coat tails of other industrial uses, a couple of years behind and GW are safe.

 

It’s still pretty good fun though