Comment on What 3D printer should I buy?
Lee@retrolemmy.com 4 days ago
I don’t know current best options, but last I was looking, the Voron design was where I was leaning. I’d suggest avoiding companies that violate open source licenses.
I used to be a Prusa evangelist, but I don’t forgive them for the MMU2S. Huge amount of people never could get it to work. I’m curious as to the actual percentage working. I couldn’t ever get it to work even with multiple complete rebuilds. That product should have been recalled or a free fix offered. Years later they released a new version that supposedly fixed the issues and you still had to pay to upgrade to it. Discounted if they had a support record for you. If not, full price.
From time to time I see a new Prusa printer and think “that looks good, I should buy it”, and then remember the insane amount of time I wasted trying to get the MMU2S to work. Never buying Prusa again until they provide me the working MMU I paid for at no additional cost. As there’s basically zero chance of that, my boycott continues and I suggest not supporting a company that fucked over their customers with an expensive poorly designed product that they then want them to pay to fix.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 days ago
From what I can read, Voron is more like the printer itself becomes the hobby, rather than actually printing stuff. I’m not really interested in tinkering with the printer itself, I just want it to work.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Voron is good for very fast prints that look like shit. But faster!
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 days ago
I really couldn’t care less about speed 😅. Dunno why so many printers advertise speed as a main selling point, I’d always choose high quality and reliable prints rather than speed. I guess it’s important if you’re running a printer farm or whatever, but I’m just looking to get the one printer.