Sure. But making mugs is wrong. You can't compare the output of a machine like this to an industrial process designed to make tens of thousands of something.
Nothing beats a cheap ceramic mug for mug-ness.
And that goes for pretty much any one-off produced with a 3D printer that attempts to re-create a mass produced item. It'll be more expensive, more fragile, less pretty and in general less functional and strong.
That's correct. Making mugs is wrong. Making mug might be correct. If you are making a second one of anything, you are probably better off using the volume-printed item as a physical model, to make a mold, which would then be used to create two whatevers by a different process.
For mugs, that means constructing a plaster mold, then using liquid clay (slip) to fill the mold. The clay is dried, glazed, and fired. If your mug design is not already unique, someone else already does this faster and more cheaply than you can. But if you want 20 mugs shaped like your own head, you're still only going to volume-print one copy.
Or maybe you're making mugs out of food-grade silicone elastomer instead of ceramic. You still only need one printed copy.
Nothing beats a cheap ceramic mug for mug-ness.
And that goes for pretty much any one-off produced with a 3D printer that attempts to re-create a mass produced item. It'll be more expensive, more fragile, less pretty and in general less functional and strong.