Recomendations for a new 3D Printer

[Paul Macey]

Hi All,

I got into 3D printing fairly early on, I got a RapMan from bits from bytes. The printer is getting a bit old now, its discontinued along with the software. I have heard/hope that current generation printers are much more reliable and fail on prints much less often. So I am considering upgrading and buying a new printer in order to save time and frustration trying to tune up my old printer to just about get prints working.



What printers do you guys have and what printers would you recommend?

Roughly speaking I'm looking for 50-100micron layer hight, ABS printing. Build size minimum of 150mm cube (but ideally bigger). Also I live in the UK if that makes any difference.

I've done a bit of research, but there is such a vast selection and massive range of prices that actually finding which ones I might want out of 100s is a bit daunting. Form my research so far these seam to be cropping up as.

• MakerGear M2
• FlashForge Creator Pro
• UltiMaker 2
• Lulzbot
• Zortrax M200
• Spiderbot
• XYZprinting Da Vinci 2.0 - price looks good but have read prints are bad

Paul

[Bracken Dawson]

Holy Darwin, didn't know anyone still had one of those in service.

Recommendations from me would depend more on a talk about budget and what you print, but i3 kits form Greg with the E3D extruder would be the logical modern equivalent of what you have.

I recommend dropping by one of the 3D printing user group meetings at So Make It. I think the next one would be in September, but keep an eye on the calendar.

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