Depending on your use case, some high performance polymers like PEEK or Ultem (PEI) can have many advantages that metals have, but are still considered plastic, so you can print them relatively normally with SLS or sometimes even FDM printers.
Printing metals is often way harder than polymers, due to high temperatures needed, and post processing is also way harder.
Depending on your use case, some high performance polymers like PEEK or Ultem (PEI) can have many advantages that metals have, but are still considered plastic, so you can print them relatively normally with SLS or sometimes even FDM printers.
Printing metals is often way harder than polymers, due to high temperatures needed, and post processing is also way harder.
What are your needs?