How would you rate this printer in terms of Ease of Use. Resolution . Build speed. Value for money?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zortrax/zortrax-m200-professional-desktop-3d-printer
It’s a metal ultimaker clone. With proprietary software. The video sounds like it’s over and above what kickstarter was made for. If they’ve got that high production quality just for a kickstarter video, they’ve got enough to invest in order to make these machines without using kickstarter as a preorder platform. I think it’s scummy of them to pretend they need kickstarter backers.
If you wanted this, do yourself a favor and order an Ultimaker instead. Ultimaker is a part of the community, contributes to it, and Cura is open source software.
Hey you didn’t answer the original question! 
Which cannot be answered until this printer is actually in the hands of people.
Thanks for the comments. It may fly in the face of the groups interests. Correct me if Im wrong but is this group only interested in very open source hack a day 3D printing. We feel as product designers the future is perhaps some fusion of the good in open source or easy maintenance, with the benefits of Plug and Play. I am too busy to mess around with a machine that needs babysitting. Hence the reason for my questions. @anthony M. I dont quite follow your logic on how they were scummy using KS. Even if lets say that had cash in the bank, using KS is a massive platform to enable your product to happen and less risk to any investors, thats just good business sense, no one is being ripped off, folks are still getting what they payed for, so could you elaborate on the reason for your dislike of what they have done. We will be doing some KS launches in the future so good to understand peoples thinking.
PS Ultimaker looks pretty good. Do you think Solid smack are seeing something Im missing?
@ThantiK I re read your comment. Your saying if someone turns up on KS with a slick looking prototype thats bad? I would have to dis agree with you. We make protos that look like a finished article, it doesn’t mean you have invested in the production infrastructure to mass produce it. That plus all the overheads of meeting the demand, makes sense to me they need plenty of cash to be a serious business.
@Sanjay_Mortimer Thanks for your input. However I think you may have to recalibrate your Shillometer, not sure how you reached that conclusion. Reason for the post, is at this stage, were no experts in the wares available in the sector. What were really interested in is cutting through to what really makes a great purchase in this $ ballpark. Can guarantee absolutely no ties to this project or any other.
@Product_Designers_Fl , his shill-o-meter is calibrated perfectly. Many of the mods here thought exactly the same thing, and you come off as a marketing drone.
well that’s interesting to know. You guys are pretty paranoid. I guess I don’t blame you. However in our case your wrong, hence why your Shillometer is off whack. No worries if your not interested in helping us learn about the products available. Peace out!
We ended up purchasing the Ultimaker, so thanks for the input. So far we love it.