So here the least surprising observation that didn’t occur to me till now. 3x 3d printers running concurrently chew through a lot more filament than 1 does. There also the matter of having to open multiple rolls of the same colour if printing parts of the same job on multiple printers.
Yupppp. The part that kills me the most is opening more than one roll. I was doing a job for someone a couple months ago and they needed parts in black. Well I had to split the order to my printer and another to get it done… was mad to have to go out and buy another roll as the old one had 3/4 left.
My advice is if you have the time to only use one printer, do it. It pays off easily.
My machines are the baby one on my desk in the office. The new big ones prints are exquisite and the other big one is dual extruder. I spend a few hours calibrating the nozzle offset and getting them the same height was no picnic either. Im finding the reduced time to get a part worth it the 2 parts taking 1hr 45min vs 3hr 30min if one does it makes a big difference.
It’s even more fun if you have printers in different places so you have to either transport rolls back and forth or else have dupes of everything.