Photo credits

A printer nozzle laying down orange plastic over a heated bed

Prusa i3 Printer - Printing first print (8965234606).jpg
John Abella from Outside Philadelphia, USA · CC BY 2.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

Filament spools on a window sill

3D Printing Filament 789.jpg
Tonnerre Lombard · CC BY 2.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

An open-frame printer beside two enclosed hobbyist printers

Trio of hobbyist 3D printers.jpg
John Abella · CC BY 2.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

Woven carbon fibre fabric on a loom

Carbon fibre weave.jpg
Christine Twigg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

Carbon fibre tows running in parallel

Carbon fibre tows.jpg
Christine Twigg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

Carbon nanotubes being drawn from a forest and twisted into a yarn, electron micrograph

CSIRO ScienceImage 1074 Carbon nanotubes being spun to form a yarn.jpg
CSIRO · CC BY 3.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

A bare hot end: heater block, copper heat break and brass nozzle

Hotend.jpg
A7N8X · CC0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

Clustered nanoparticles seen through a transmission electron microscope

Nanoparticles (5940478291).jpg
National Institute of Standards and Technology · Public domain · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

Used crisp and snack packets made of metallised plastic and aluminium laminate

Aluminium en plastic folie verpakkingsmateriaal - Aluminium and plastic foil food packaging - The Netherlands, May 2020.jpg
Hansmuller · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

Clear PLA cold cups

Cmglee PLA cups.jpg
Cmglee · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

A bale of crushed PET bottles waiting for recycling

Bales of PET bottles closeup.jpg
Grendelkhan · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

An industrial nitrogen generator with receiver tanks used for modified atmosphere packaging

GCS nitrogen generator for modified atmosphere packaging.jpg
Bdcook · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

A ready-to-eat salad in a clear plastic clamshell

Steak salad (packaged) - Boston, MA.jpg
Daderot · CC0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

Whole mullet packed on trays under film with price labels

HK Westwood Wellcome Shop packaged iced Seafood 烏頭魚 mullet fish April-2012.jpg
Simmremmai · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

A shipping label with an RFID antenna visible behind the barcode

RFID tag in a label 1.png
Pedalito · CC0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

Spools of orange, purple, red and grey filament on a shelf above printed figurines

3D Printing Materials (16863368275).jpg
Maurizio Pesce from Milan, Italia · CC BY 2.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

Loose coils of filament in many colours on a dark table

3D-Druck-Filament in verschiedenen Farben.jpg
Suit · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

A rack of open-frame printers running the same part

3D printing of face shields.jpg
Jan Beránek · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

A one kilogram spool of PETG sealed in a bag inside its box

1 kg petg filament in packaging.jpg
Suit · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

A row of filament spools in red, yellow, white, blue and green lying on an open workshop shelf

Helsinki, Oodi, 3D printer filament.jpg
Kalle · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

A tangle of stray extruded filament left on a printer bed by a failed print

Makerbot printing problems.jpg
SuperBlobMonster · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

A filament dry box beside a printer, a spool behind its window and the display reading 45 degrees and 45 per cent

Creality dry-box.jpg
Mortymore · CC BY 2.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

Translucent blue silica gel desiccant beads scattered on a white surface

Blue silica gel.jpg
Mauro Cateb · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

A Bambu Lab X1 Carbon printer with a four spool AMS unit on top, its lid closed over black, red, grey and white filament

Bambu Lab X1 Carbon with AMS module.jpg
Benlisquare · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

The toolhead of a Voron printer, its orange and black printed housing marked VORON, over a textured build sheet

Printer in working.jpg
disinterpreter · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

A printer status screen reading 215 degrees at the extruder and 40 degrees in the chamber

MakerBot Replicator Z18 LCD display - Heated build chamber (16107352797).jpg
Creative Tools from Halmstad, Sweden · CC BY 2.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

A close view of a PEEK satellite frame printed by ESA, its lattice wall open over circuit traces built into the part

3D-printed CubeSat body ESA377710.jpg
European Space Agency · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

ESA's MELT printer, an aluminium boxed machine, with beige printed fittings and a small box in front of it

MELT 3D printer ESA401434.jpg
European Space Agency · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

Shapes of raw biscuit dough on baking paper, cut with a 3D printed cutter

Cookies shaped with a 3D printed cutter.jpg
Dbsnp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

An Ultimaker 3 printing a green part with white breakaway support

Ultimaker 3 printing with Breakaway support material.jpg
Svitlana Lozova · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

A drop of molten plastic hanging from the tip of a printer nozzle

3D printer nozzle extruding plastic (15425519178).jpg
David Elliott from UK · CC BY 2.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

A white PETG pulley shaft with five grooved sheaves and a keyed hub, lying on a black worktop

First PETG 3D FLM Printed Pulley Shaft Design (49014483321).jpg
newman72 (Flickr) · CC BY 2.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

A hot end with a red silicone sock laying the first lines of a print onto blue painter's tape

3D Printer - the first layer(16661915478).jpg
Luke Jones from Anchorage · CC BY 2.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

A spool of orange flexible filament in a clear case, its label listing drying temperatures by material

Sting3D FPLA Flexible Filament.jpg
Sweetclara · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

The first layer of a square part with a round opening, laid in white lines straight onto an amber heated bed

Operator Coin Holder, Raftless (5829789709).jpg
syvwlch · CC BY 2.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP

A small white printed part sitting on a wider, flat three-layer raft

Stampa 3d raft.jpg
A7N8X · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · cropped and re-encoded as WebP