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These precursors can be printed at room temperature and turned into transparent glass in a subsequent heat treatment. When silicate glasses entered the field of 3D printing, two major directions came up-direct 3D printing of low melting glasses at high temperatures and indirect glass printing of glass precursors using technologies borrowed from the techniques of polymer 3D printing. In recent years, considerable efforts have been made to making glasses accessible to the 3D printing revolution of the twenty-first century. However, precision shaping of glasses is notoriously difficult and mainly limited to grinding and polishing processes for macroscopic objects and hazardous etching processes for the fabrication of microstructures. Transparent silicate glasses are the material of choice for high-performance optical components as they combine high optical transparency with high thermal, chemical, and mechanical stability. Glasses have shaped the field of optics and photonics like no other material-enabling numerous sensing and imaging systems, optical data transfer, and laser systems.