Source: Yanko Design
A Chinese startup has compressed industrial full-color 3D printing from $50,000+ systems into affordable desktop hardware, eliminating the price barrier that confined this capability to industrial buyers. The parallel is exact: FDM printing followed the same arc—$100K+ machines became $300-500 consumer units in the 2010s—and the next wave of adoption will hinge on color and detail, not just material options. Design studios, product teams, and hobbyists can now prototype multicolor parts without outsourcing to service bureaus. Iteration cycles shorten. Intermediary businesses disappear.