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About | Development | Community | RepRap Machines | Resources | Policy

Welcome to RepRap.org

RepRap is humanity's first RepRap

general-purpose self-replicating from Adrian Bowyer
manufacturing machine.

RepRap takes the form of a free

desktop 3D printer capable of
printing plastic objects. Since many
parts of RepRap are made from
plastic and RepRap prints those
parts, RepRap self-replicates by
making a kit of itself - a kit that
anyone can assemble given time and
materials. It also means that - if
you've got a RepRap - you can print
lots of useful stuff, and you can print
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another RepRap for a friend...

RepRap is about making self-

replicating machines, and making them freely available for the benefit of everyone. We are
using 3D printing to do this, but if you have other technologies that can copy themselves and
that can be made freely available to all, then this is the place for you too.

Reprap.org is a community project, which means you are welcome to edit most pages on
this site, or better yet, create new pages of your own. Our community portal and New
Development pages have more information on how to get involved. Use the links below and on
the left to explore the site contents. You'll find some content translated into other languages.

RepRap was the first of the low-cost 3D printers, and the RepRap Project started the open-
source 3D printer revolution. It has become the most widely-used 3D printer among the global
members of the Maker Community.

RepRap was voted the most significant 3D-printed object (https://3dprint.com/192706/10-

significant-things-results/) in 2017. That is to say people think that the most important thing
you can print in a 3D printer is another 3D printer - the whole reason for the RepRap project.
Also in 2017 RepRap's creator Adrian Bowyer was awarded the 3D Printing Industry's
Outstanding Contribution to 3D Printing Award (https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/dr-adrian-
bowyer-receive-outstanding-contribution-3d-printing-award-107673/) and was inducted into the
3D Printing Hall of Fame (https://tctawards.com/hall-of-fame/). In 2019 Adrian was awarded an
MBE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire) by Her Majesty Queen

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Elizabeth II (https://www.royal.uk/her-majesty-the-queen) for RepRap.

RepRap state-of-the-art when this page was last updated (March 2019) is well represented by
John Mulac's Mulbot (also available here (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3432384)).

Source: Moilanen, J. & Vadén, T.: Manufacturing in motion: first

survey on the 3D printing community, Statistical Studies of Peer
Production (http://surveys.peerproduction.net/2012/05
/manufacturing-in-motion).

A family using one RepRap to print only 20 domestic products per year
(about 0.02% of the products available) can expect to save between $300
and $2000:

"...the unavoidable conclusion from this study is that the RepRap is

an economically attractive investment for the average US household
already."

Source: B.T. Wittbrodt et al., Life-cycle economic analysis of distributed manufacturing

with open-source 3-D printers, Mechatronics (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016
/j.mechatronics.2013.06.002).

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If you want to build a RepRap, click here for details of some of the more popular designs.
There is also a legacy section at the end for our older machines so you can see how the
designs have evolved.

Recent Wiki Changes

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This page was last edited on 17 March 2019, at 08:01.

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