A person who uses a 3D printer is a...
In English the machine is a 3D printer and the person who operates it is a 3D printer. Very awkward, and very like Joe's t-shirt! Is there a better term for the person? Does this double-use of the phrase turn up in other languages as well?
I know that the people who operate metal detectors like to be called 'detectorists' in order to distinguish between the person and the machine, so maybe I'm a 3D printerist. (have you seen that TV show 'Detectorists'? It's a good one if you like minimal drama and quiet humor.)
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"Printerist" seems a bit awkward. How about just "Printist"? Or maybe "Digital Sculptor"?
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"Printerist" makes me think of a 3D printing specific Pinterest, but I suppose that would be Printerest.
EDIT: And now that I check, there is a Printerest on Pinterest, but it has nothing to do with 3d printing :/
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You’re not a 3D printer. You’re someone who prints things on a 3D printer.
Or a 3D printer printer, I guess.
Context also has a lot to do with the English language and how you interpret what is written or spoken.
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Its a tool like any other. People are machine operators. Some who uses a lathe is a lathe operator or lathe machinist, like a milling machinist. So a 3dprinter operator. Even someone who uses a traditional 2d printer is called a press operator (from the older term for a printer of printing press)
Certainly would not be called a digital sculptor. There are many people that couldn't (won't) model or sculpt but are quite happy printing downloaded objects from online.
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Yeah, I just realized that "PrintIst" is too close for comfort to "PrintErest" and "Digital Sculptor" doesn't seem to be specific enough. "3D Printing Engineer or Technician"?
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An Operator you say. 😎
So a 3dprinter operator.
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I may be late to the game, but I just found looking for an answer to essentially the same question. I say: The person should be called the "3D Printer", and the hardware should be called a "3D Print Device". So now the question is, "How do we get the industry to change their labeling of their products?"
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I usually don't like necro-ing threads but this is kind of fun. A person who operates a 2D printing press is a "printer". So can't see why this would be any different. Just one extra dimension...
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I have a dark foreboding that in the not-too-far future it will be simply "human": AI-friendly (single token!) and complete in the same way we're referring to "ants" regardless of their occupational specialization.
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A person who uses a 3D printer is a...
In English the machine is a 3D printer and the person who operates it is a 3D printer. Very awkward, and very like Joe's t-shirt! Is there a better term for the person? Does this double-use of the phrase turn up in other languages as well?
It's on the Jo's tshirt: everyone is a maker, only Jo is a printer 😀
See my GitHub and printables.com for some 3d stuff that you may like.
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Nerd! (?)
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3D Printer Operator
3D Printer Technician
3D Printer Specialist
3D Printer Support Engineer
3D Printer Scheduling Manager
... ad nauseum
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