Comment on Prusa MK4s launch (TLDR)
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
NGL, I feel that Prusa has lost their edge.
Yes, they are still the pioneers, and yes, their company still has strong morals and a open-source culture that is lovely for the community.
But- the market has left them behind. XL is a great idea but awfully expensive and maybe not perfectly implemented. MK4’s are great-ish, but get their pants beat off in speed and quality by a P1P that’s $300 cheaper. I know running in countries with functional human rights incurs a significant cost, but unfortunately the fickle “free” market doesn’t take such things into account frequently enough. And that’s worrisome for Prusa’s future.
EmilieEvans@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
E3D toolchanger launch price in 2019 was 2700 GBP. Adjusted for inflation it is in today’s money 3300 GBP (approx. 3900€). A Prusa XL is 3700€. For toolchangers the Prusa price isn’t out of the ordinary.
The issue is the performance/reliability isn’t there to back this price point. Having to worry about printed parts bending on a 3.7k€ machine is laughable. Having issues with a heatbed is laughable. Support having trouble resolving these issues/identifying what exactly is broken isn’t a great overall picture.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Yeah if I pay 3700€ for a tool, I expect it to work pretty flawlessly out if the box.