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Re:Our 3d printer is better than yours by VladimirGolovin on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @07:32AM (#3697927)
Judging from the video, the resolution / dot size is about 1 µm (one micrometre). For comparison, the thickness of the tape in a 120-minute compact cassette is 9 µm, the diameter of a typical bacterium is 1–10 µm, and the diameter of the nucleus of a typical eukaryotic cell is 7 µm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_micrometre).
Re:Our 3d printer is better than yours by deadsy on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @10:19AM (#3698519)
Right. There's a bit of use of the "nano" prefix in the article, but it really should be "micro".