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Netflix Inc. has acquired the rights to the documentary Print The Legend, about a 3D printing industry which has drawn recent attention from Wall Street. Netflix said, the documentary, which Netflix will premiere exclusively in 2014, goes behind-the-scenes of the top American 3-D printing brands as they fight to dominate the sector. So-called 3-D printers build physical objects from thousands of layers of liquefied plastic, metal, glass or other materials. Sales of such equipment have been soaring as the technology--which has been around about 25 years--has become better known and more widely used in manufacturing. William Dante, of the Association of 3D Printing commented that "3D Printing has become mainstream...in manufacturing and now in Media."