How do you 3D print a book? This 3D-printed book will teach you

‘Manual’ is a 26-page, 3D-printed book with the code inside for how to make it.

[Photo: Jonathan Tan/courtesy Hyperpress]

It’s an advancement in publishing that Johannes Gutenberg could hardly have fathomed.

Manual is a 26-page, 3D-printed book made of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) from Hyperpress, a research initiative exploring 3D-printed graphic design and publishing by Darius Ou and Benson Chong. All that’s written inside the replicable book is a selection of its own G-code, or the code used to 3D print it. A........

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