My wife just called out from downstairs “Google 3D Create and Print”. They’re advertising this magazine based printer on the TV in the UK! UK TV adverts don’t come cheap, especially at 7PM. I sure hope a lot of people that are interested come to find this community via the interweb first. Otherwise they’ll pay a lot of £££ and wait an age before they can print anything. Far better to get a kit from someone like @Think3dPrint3d and get printing at their place in a matter of days, not many many months!
http://3dprinter-collection.com
The odds of getting a working printer sooner is better on Kickstarter. You will have to wait almost 2 years to get all the parts for this one. Hopefully they won’t be tempted to make any design revisions (or fixes) that will invalidate previously shipped parts by the end of 80 weeks.
Hah! Its just an Alfinia UP! in a box. http://www.3ders.org/images/AFINIA-3d-printer-5.jpg
It’s a very clever box. It would make more sense for Afinia to license the design and use it to position their printer against the polished consumer boxes that are becoming more common.
Ha, the Affinia printer is actually made by another company called TierTime in China and is sold as the “Up!”
sir can one get a job at your institude .
Who are you asking @Fortambia_Atabe ? If me I don’t have any positions open at the moment, if I did it would be for a London based sales person.
@Ian_Johnson Following links to the designer’s website, you can preorder a kit now for GBP699 with a usual selling price of GPB799. Apparently printers will ship in April 2015.
Looking at the advertisement the parts look like they are injection moulded and do appear to be rather flimsy. There are some printed examples but they don’t appear to be anything remarkable. The software used is Sketchup Make.
@Tim_Rastall Doesn’t appear to be an UP!. If you Google it, there are links to the original designer’s site.
@Neil_Darlow yeah but if you look at it, it’s exactly the same mechanical design. Same ribbon cable etc etc. That guy did not come up with the design. He may have designed the enclosure.
@Tim_Rastall You need to be careful making these types of statement.
Yes, the V3 and UP both appear to have a ribbon cable in the design. The placement of the filament spool differs and we have no knowledge of what firmware or hotend is in use.
The designer may have been influenced by the UP design but he may also have studied many others before committing his design choices.
Without knowing, for sure, that he used the UP as his design reference you cannot just state that it is a boxed UP.
@Neil_Darlow seriously, I’ve used an Up! I know how they work, how unique there design is and how closely this thing matches that design. It is the same printer or a very similar clone in a box. If you like I can call in some other community owners that will tell you the same thing. If you took the time to watch the videos and compare the 2 designs, you’d reach the same conclusion. If I wasn’t confident about this I wouldnt be saying it.
I agree with @Tim_Rastall , that’s an Up! and the designer didn’t do shit.