One on my business partners bought a Formlabs Form 1. When it worked it was great, but it just wasn't reliable enough to depend on at the volume of work it was

One on my business partners bought a Formlabs Form 1. When it worked it was great, but it just wasn't reliable enough to depend on at the volume of work it was bringing in. For high volumes you need to by an expensive machine, but prices clients are willing to pay is dropping, and the technology is changing fast. He couldn't make a business case for owning a 3D printer, so he sold it. Shapeways is cheap & fast enough.