Conventional methods for creating a prototype are extremely expensive, slow, and complex. Also, they need several operations to achieve an exact replica. Some of them use wood, cardboard, clay, etc., which is unprofitable.
The fast prototyping with 3D printing enables designers to create their idea with all their details and functionality. The real advantage of this technology is the rapid decrease of the time needed for making the prototype from a few days and weeks to a few hours, and thus it reduces its price significantly. The used polymers can be treated afterwards – machining, painting, and chroming until absolutely identical copies of the end product are achieved.
3D printing of marketing prototypes has another significant advantage – fast feedback which reduces the time for a redesign of certain parts of the idea or the whole product. The changed model can be printed quickly for re-evaluation until the desired effect is achieved. The fast feedback of the marketing specialists or even the clients would be impossible without the use of 3D printing.