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Re: Acquiring a 3D Printer?

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Originally Posted by ollien View Post
How's that printer working out for you? My team was in talks of buying it for a while but that $4500 price tag was a bit hard to swallow.
It's awesome. We've turned out a few parts but we've got an FTC team we're sharing our space with that is turning out parts left and right on it.

The worst issue we've seen is that it can jam when printing at full speed on parts that have high fill levels but the fix is easy enough... just slow down the print speed.... which S3D makes super simple.

The support is amazing when we've needed it. We've got an early one so we needed a new extruder and they shipped it out next day and gave us help with installing it and then doing some firmware tweaking/updating.

So far, very impressed with the company.

Also, if you're a non-profit then they'll cut you a bit of a break via tax.
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