Printing’s Not Dead: The $35 Billion Fight Over Ink Cartridges

America’s onetime innovation icons are wrestling over their biggest remaining piles of money. From a report: The HP 63 Tri-color ink cartridge retails for $28.99 at Staples. Stuffed with foam sponges drenched in a fraction of an ounce of cyan, magenta, and yellow dyes, this bestseller, model No. F6U61AN#140, can spray 36,000 drops per second in the Envy printers made by…

20 US States Want to Stop the Posting of Blueprints For 3D-Printed Guns

An anonymous reader quotes the Associated Press:
Attorneys general in 20 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a federal regulation that could allow blueprints for making guns on 3D printers to be posted on the internet. New York Attorney General Tish James, who helped lead the coalition of state attorneys general, argued that posting the blueprints would…

Utah Man Builds Bulletproof Stormtrooper Suit With 3-D Printer

schwit1 quotes CNN’s report on a software engineer who who really loves Star Wars costumes: “I kind of incorporated all of the things that I’ve learned in 3-D printing and DIY into this project,” said Nils Rasmusson. Over the course of nine months, he printed the suit and put it together. “I had to figure out — how do you…