What 3D printer should I get if I'm willing to spend around $500,

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@Laird_Popkin yes and no. The print time increases exponentially as your nozzle size decreases, also you have have a feed system that can push in tiny amounts of plastic. You will need a geared extruder for this. You forget that with a .1mm nozzle you must print at .08 layer height to get any adhesion… so print times actually go up x20

I am going to be honest, the text won’t work… I do text all the time, that small won’t work.

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So I’d be looking at a day or more just to print 1 Lego… I don’t think I’d have that kind of patience, unfortunately…

If I double the size of the Lego brick, it would not fit with official Lego’s, but do you think the text would work then?

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@Mathilda_Young Line width needs to be the same or bigger than nozzle size . I will leave it at that, you cant do anything less than that. It will not work.

I typically can print text at about 4mm on an edge(capitals) and get it legible.

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Thanks @Camerin_hahn