Last Christmas's 3D Printers Gather Dust as Stratasys Slumps

  • Stratasys stock down 63% this year, 3D Systems dropped 61%
  • `A lot of hype and misinformation' drove sales: analyst says
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Anne-Isabelle Choueiri gave her kids a 3D printer last Christmas when they were hailed as the next big thing. Almost a year later, it’s been all but forgotten.

“It’s been recycled as a bedside table,” Choueiri, a 39-year-old digital consultant in New York, said of her $799 Da Vinci 1.0 AiO device from XYZprinting Inc.