Dissemination of IT for the Promotion of Materials Science (DoITPoMS)

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Going further

Books

Additive Manufacturing Technologies: 3D Printing, Rapid Prototyping, and Direct Digital Manufacturing, I.Gibson

Other

https://www.hubs.com/knowledge-base/ is a good site which goes into a little more detail about using 3D printing.

I recommend watching videos of each process to fully grasp manufacturing, and also viewing images of objects made by each process to see how final print quality differs.