[Norm Lenhart]

And soon. only the weakest of plastics will be legally available for use in it. Look for the raw materials to be legislated behind the scenes and pressure put on the manufacturers.

[JRandomFreeper]

The cool part about thermoplastics is that they can be recycled. ;)

/johnny

[Vince Ferrer]

Look for the raw materials to be legislated behind the scenes and pressure put on the manufacturers.

That is impossible. As a compliment to these machines, many are making cheap filament extruders that can recycle household plastics. The only way to ban the raw materials is to ban plastics, which will never happen.

£220 3D printing filament extruder launched on Kickstarter

[muir_redwoods]

The can’t (or wont) effectively stop cocaine or heroin; I suspect stronger plastics might be available if one want to pay for it.

[whodathunkit]

Look for the raw materials to be legislated behind the scenes and pressure put on the manufacturers.

Norm, you seem to be knowledgeable about the subject. Is there any way these printers will be adding a hidden watermark to the object being printed? I was under the impression that the feds have this capability built into laser printers. Maybe it is just an urban legend but I could see them trying just that with 3D printers.