What Does 3D Printer Mean?

A 3D printer is a type of material design printer that designs and builds 3D models and products of devices and components using an additive manufacturing process.

Techopedia Explains 3D Printer

3D printers are primarily used to build and enable rapid prototyping of three-dimensional objects and structures using direct source files from a 3-D designing application such as AutoCAD. 3D printers employ additive manufacturing, where the printer designs the object by applying sequential layers of raw material to actually print a three-dimensional object.