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3D Print Farm Talk - Should You Upgrade? - Some Experience with Old vs New Machines (www.youtube.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I found this interesting. It's a different view point than "buy the latest and greatest".

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

As inefficient as it is, for smaller quantities it does still to be quite a bit cheaper and faster than older methods. There's obviously a breaking point, but if you don't know you'll hit that point, I imagine that it's pretty easy to just keep going with FDM prints beyond the line where you could have saved money if you'd known ahead of time.

That said, I don't do that. I sell articulated toys at the local market. So far I've always made way more than enough to cover my costs, and I figure I'm about 1/3 of the way to paying for all my printers, including the 1 I actively use, the 1 I rarely use, and the 2 that I never use.

I figure that upgrading to a Bambu would give me multi-color capability, and remove a fair bit of stress from my printing. So I'm pretty tempted, but I'm trying to wait to see what they release next.