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Originally Posted by vicky_molokh
IIRC Deep Beyond mentions some miners being self-sufficient with the aid of a printer, which implies that on-site production is quite doable? So perhaps the systems required for producing feedstock for printers are within an order of magnitude of the printers themselves? Been a while since I read DB.
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That seems plausibly similar to the real-world situation: you can make your own PLA filament (from pellets or recycled prints), but the hardware to do it costs about as much as or more than the 3D printer, and quality control is hard work.