If I were a betting man, I’d be putting some money on the Zortrax m200 printer making some waves this year.
@David_Da_Costa , owner of at least 4 printers (if memory serves) is saying some very nice things about it, to paraphrase: it surpasses the UP! in print quality, which is saying something as the UP! Plus has always been my benchmark for high quality desktop FDM.
It’s also cheap - 1900USD, which blows the latest makerbot and Ultimakers out of the water.
To boot, their abs filament is $20 a roll if you own the robot and they have both European and HK distribution centres.
The bad news is its closed source but, I have to say, if I had 2k burning a hole in my pocket, I think it would get spent on one of these, I suspect I won’t be the only one thinking this.
That print of Davids is fantastic. Definitely has me interested and now that they support Mac all the better. The Form1 has shown me that these closed source printers are really succeeding in rock solid reliability and print quality. Im a big proponent of open everything (my curriculum is even open source) but at the same time I don’t use Linux (except to tinker with on my pi). That makes me sad a little but at the end of the day I don’t have time to tinker with shit especially the machines the students use in the studio.
Actually its 6 printers Tim :).
I have absolutely no problem with closed source, in fact I would rather have closed source with firmware and software tuned to that particular machine. The best two printing printer I have are my UP Plus’s and my Zortrax, both closed source.