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Couldn't agree more. I just took the plunge and backed the new Mod-t printer on Indiegogo. I previously had experience with the Luzlbot and the Makerbot Repli
by habosa 12y ago
Couldn't agree more. I just took the plunge and backed the new Mod-t printer on Indiegogo. I previously had experience with the Luzlbot and the Makerbot Replicator.
It is nearly impossible to compare to printers if you are looking to buy. There are "specifications" but they really don't tell you what you want to know: how good will my prints come out?
Printers tell you they have 0.Xmm vertical resolution, but even that doesn't tell you what you want to know. Some good printers have "lower resolution" than some bad printers. Then there is the matter of support material, PLA vs ABS, extruder size, calibration, print speed, etc.
I hope soon we will be able to compare 3D printers as objectively as a hard drive or cell phone.
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- kenjinp 12y agoYes! This is the goal. It's very difficult to explain these specifications, and I don't think our website has reached that goal yet, although it's an exciting problem to try to solve. The problem comes down to what you're using your printer for. Like you said, its often better to use a "lower resolution" printer because it's faster and more reliable. For the question "How good will my print come out?" we've tried to answer that with a '3D Prints' picture feature that are provided by the community, so you can see what quality other people get out of a particular machine.