Are consumer level 3D printers able to print plastic objects of similar quality to ones produced using injection molding? Or is 3D printing useful mostly for the prototyping stage before a design is finalized and a steel mold is produced for injection molding?

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    61 year ago

    It’s not the quality that’s a problem, it’s throughput. In the hours it would take to print a part, you could get hundreds of an injection molded part.