I attended the CES show earlier this year and we looked at about 20 or more of these printers. We saw everything from super low budget printers to high end systems costing 10s of thousands of dollars. I was impressed with this technology and definitely see it as being useful for many applications. The kinds of things you could do with some of these printers, even lower end ones, was astonishing. I honestly can't remember any of the brands or which I thought were better, but even the low end machines were impressive. And the cost of the rolls of material was a lot less and lasted a lot longer than I would have thought.
System Specs: OS - Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1, CPU - AMD Phenom II X4 945, 3.0Ghz, RAM - 8Gb DDR3, GFX Card - 2048MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 640, FPSC-R Version - Beta 1.0085