Spun out of the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Formlabs immediately set itself apart from both the world of desktop printers and industrial equipment by offering the best of both worlds: an industrial quality machine that could fit on your desktop for a price of about $5,000. Since it blew away Kickstarter some ten years ago, the company has grown into one of the additive manufacturing sector’s few unicorns. Having never used a Formlabs 3D printer before, I always wondered if these machines lived up to the hype.