Impact of 3D Printing on Comic Book Industry

This document discusses the impact of 3D printing technology on the comic book industry. It explores the benefits of 3D printing in product development, the ethical considerations, and the potential disruption caused by implementing 3D printing in the industry.

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Part One – Research
Additive manufacturing that is 3D printing is completely making revolution in the whole
market. It has been making changes in the whole of the market in the last few years. With time,
there has been growth of advancement in both technology and materials which brought down
hyper change (Petersen, Kidd & Pearce, 2017). Comic books are around the whole given
scenario since the year 1930, and they have enjoyed a mid of 1950. There is huge amount of
innovation among the whole industry of comic book. With time, the whole of the comic book
industry is getting stronger day by day. In the earlier days, there were various organization who
have tried to make advanced comic book industry. Some of the organization are trying to make
the whole thing digital, which is achieved by putting iPads, internet and tablets. All of they are
putting the digital way, which is best to go (Korbin, 2018). It is all about hardening the overall
path that can bring tradition for reading comic books. It is known to be very much deadening like
the innovation attempts.
Corrente is a well-known firm which is completely specialized in creation of 3D printing
portraits by making use of technology like 3D printing and scanning. The mere focus is all about
creating custom of 3D figures and printing pictures in most of the art (Boyd et al., 2016). The
organization makes use of Zcrop 3D printer which aims to print 3D sandstone so that they can
create comic book cover. They mainly make of Artec Eva scanner, which is needed for creating
3D models of people.
Part Two – Brainstorming
There are large number of effects of 3D printing which can bring huge number of
benefits on comic book industry like

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 The first biggest benefit of 3D printing technology is that it can easily boost the overall
product development. Technology can easily provide full control over the development
process (Singh & Patterson, 2016). Organization can easily become middleman from
rapid development that is prototyping cycle and manufacturing of work prototypes for
development of in-house product. It will merely give them much better control over the
data fabrication and materials that are being used.
 By the help of 3D printing technology, industrial manufactures and another kind of small
organization which will reduce the overall time. The technology will start right from
manufacturing right from order to shipping products to client (Dahl et al., 2018).
Designer does not have 2D sketches which are needed for moulding manufactures along
with making use of different kind of approaches.
 In comic industry, 3D printing technology can easily boast the whole method of product
development, which can bring pragmatic viewpoint. Overall implementation of digital
fabric is known to be rapid kind of development for prototyping and makes use of
manufacturing process (Chen, 2017). This particular aspect will ultimately reduce the
overall cost of development. If the technology is used on internal platform, then it can
result in cost saving and time.
Part three- Regulation and Ethics
There are large number of regulation and ethic consideration which can be identified by
making use of Lawrence regulation that is Market, Law, Architecture and lastly Norms.
Market: With time, the whole of the 3D printing technology is developing at a rapid rate
(Ximenes et al., 2019). There is a huge number of challenges associated with the worldwide
acceptance of 3D printing technology.

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Law: There is large number of security and privacy concern associated with the laws
associated with using the use of 3D printing technology in comic book industry.
Architecture: The overall architecture of 3D printing technology is very much complex.
The whole of the 3D printing technology is very much difficult to understand.
Norms: 3D printing technology has ultimately led to much faster supply chains and much
lead times (Donahoe, 2019). By the help of 3D printing prototypes are considered to be very
much similar in size and properties of final products.
Part four- Disruption
Implementation of 3D printing technology in comic book industry requires proper
training. It is completely based on collected feedback from the users.
Events: Collecting feedback from the user of comic book industry.
Activities: Assuring concerning benefits of 3D printing in comic industry.
Point of discussion: Will 3D printing technology brings benefits to the comic industry
Actors: User of 3D printing technology in comic book industry
Outcomes: There is large number of benefits of 3D printing technology that is completely
understood by comic book industry.
In the diagram, the AS-IS model of comic book has been provided in details. The first
step is all about choosing comic book and second is all about seller the book from the seller end.
The bill will be created, which will reflect the amount and overall status. With the increase in the
speed of the printer, quality assurance tool is completely embedded in the tool which will help in
much better validation. At present, there is large number of materials provider and organization
which will opt much more producing parts and required products. A large number of comic book

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manufacturer are collaborating with supplier of materials so that they can create own variation of
materials.

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Fig 1: As- IS Model
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Events: Collecting required information from comic book manufacturer.
Activities: Providing idea concerning advantages of use of 3d printing in comic books.
Point of discussion: Will comic book industry receive benefits of 3d printing technology.
Actors: Book readers
Outcomes: Benefits is all about proper view of 3D printing technology.
In the diagram given below, the to-be model of implementing 3D printing technology on
comic book industry has been provided. For 3D printing of comic books, 3D scanner and other
application has been discussed in details. There are large number of file formats and software
available for 3D printing of comic books.

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Fig 2: To-be Process
(Source: Created by Author)

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Transcript
A warm welcome to my friends and teachers.
Today I am going to discuss the impact of 3D printing technology on Comic book
industry.
3D printing is all about creating building by making use of layer of object layer by layer
in the given time. It can be stated as the method of offering huge number of advantages in
comparison to traditional manufacturing and technique. It is known to be as one of the important
aspect which is being applied to whole of the comic industry.
In the upcoming days, 3D printing technology is expected to the current model for
manufacturing. It comes up with huge number of advantages like 3D printer for delivery of quick
design. It merely comes up with high accuracy from the functional materials.
There is huge number of advantages of 3D printing which help the designer to that they
can make much better decision. It is all about selecting the right manufacturing process that helps
in proper delivery of products.
The biggest plus point of 3D printing technology is all about understanding speed and
design parts that can be produced and easily compared. It can be stated the most traditional mode
of manufacturing method. There is large number of complex design which is made available by
making use of CAD model and the printed within the periods. The biggest plus point is all about
verification and development of required design ideas.
One of the biggest concern of 3D printing designers is all about understanding how
manufacturing as much efficient as much possible. A large number of parts makes use of
manufacturing step which is completely produced by making use of some of the traditional
technologies. 3D printing is completely built in one given step where there is no kind of

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interaction of machine operator at the instance of build phase. Along with design phase, the
complete design of CAD comes into picture. It is made available for CAD design which is
uploaded on the machine and printed in single step for the given time.
Thank you for your time. I hope you like my presentation on this topic that is 3D printing
on Comic book industry.

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