It’s 2018 and any 3D printer worth buying will cost $1000 or more, right? After years of following desktop 3D printing I chose the Anet A8 as my first step into 3D printing. I wanted to prove that this cheap $160 DIY 3D printer isn’t necessarily total junk.
Monoprice printers are the most popular and Prusa printers are also extremely popular, all of which are well under $1000. Maybe better wording is $250 or more?
@Adam_Steinmark I read a little about monoprice but I don’t know a whole lot about them. I looked into prusa quite a bit, because it’s also based on the reprap design. The prusa i3 mk3 is $999 plus $70 shipping for the assembled version and $750 plus $70 shipping for the diy kit. I guess I was rounding up. If I had an extra $1000 to spend on a 3D printer, I’d buy a prusa. If I had more than that I’d look into an ultimaker.
I can attest to the quality of the Ultimaker line. The UM3 produces the finest results I’ve seen, rivaling the high end Statasys Fortus machines. Their profile for PVA supports produces such clean prints I sometimes had a hard time telling the top surfaces of a part from the underside.