Company News

We love 3D Printers and the wonderful Plastic Filament they use. But you know what we love more? Hearing from you! We love your critiques, suggestions, hopes, dreams; we love it. And we were devastated to recently discover that some of what you were trying to tell us had fallen into a dark internet pit of oblivion. Here's what happened -

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We have noticed that there is a growing number of customers who go through plastic at a pretty good clip.  As such we are thrilled to be providing free shipping (UPS Ground) within the lower 48 for orders $300 dollars or more.  Don't live in the continental US? Not to worry, we'll automatically apply a $25 discount to your shipping charge.

Just a quick note that the deadline for entries for our December Design Contest: Winter Wonderland has been extended to include Christmas Day! So touch up those designs, fire up the printer, and get your best action shot of your astonished and impressed friends and family Christmas Day.

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We have had a lot of inquiries asking when student pricing will be ready and we are happy to announce that educational pricing is here!  Fostering education is a very important priority here are ProtoParadigm and we look forward to facilitating the up and coming generation of creative professionals. Continue reading →

ProtoParadigm is proud to announce that we will now be accepting Bitcoin!  At first we need to call this a trial, but as long as everything keeps moving smoothly, we'll keep taking them.

If you don't know what Bitcoin is, take a look at this video:

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While we weren't able to make it this year, you can see some of our products if you drop by the Trinity Labs booth at World Maker Faire New York 2012 on September 29 and 30. The Trinity Labs booth will have some amazing stuff to show off, and they'll be working with ProtoParadigm plastic!

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Today's new product post is a happy one. Happy because it's about helping the 3D Printing user experience, and the wallet. Expect more of these in the future.

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It’s been quiet around the ProtoParadigm blog these days, too quiet. But we’re happy to say that we’ve been hard at work behind the scenes. We’ve got some new products on the way, some more posts in the works, and...

It’s been a work in progress for some time, but we’ve finally finished the move to our new e-commerce software. We are very excited to be making this change, and we hope you will be too as we were able to address a number of customer complaints and requests. You asked, we listened.

• Use a Credit Card or PayPal! Many enjoy the speed and convenience of PayPal, and now you can enjoy it too with the addition of PayPal to our accepted methods of payment.
• Non-US customers, we are able to accept international orders again! Hello World.
• You can now filter products by their characteristics, such as color, material, weight, etc. As we add more products (and boy are there some doozies in the works) searching for exactly what you want will be easier than ever.
• Better access to your order information - log in to track your packages, see your order status, and more.
• Streamlined shopping cart means an easier checkout process with better feedback, and an end to the bugs in our old shopping cart.

Those with an account on the old site will need to create a new account (sorry). Also, if you see anything that looks a bit off, or find anything on the site that is clearly broken, please let us know so we can get right to fixing it.

We’ve also just published a 3D Printer Filament Buyer’s Guide to help new users along as they get started. If you’re brand new to 3D printing, give this a read.

Keep letting us know what kind of content you’d like to see, and what products you’d like us to carry.

Well after a very long wait and a very lost driver (hundreds of miles lost). We are stocked once again with 3mm PLA. Further, we are adding two new products; 3mm Green PLA and 3mm Blue ABS.

We didn't mention the new 3mm colors? Oh, well for your printing pleasure we are happy to now offer Red 3mm ABS and Green 3mm ABS. Go crazy.

Mean Green

No Rhyme Red