What Desk top 3D printer is worth getting? I’m trying to keep it under $500
5 Tiko printers
Thank you, that looks amazing.
5 OLO/ONO printers.
Seriously, any decent printer is going to be at least $750-1000. Also understand that the printer is not the last cost. Filament, repairs, upgrades, all are significant ongoing costs.
@cameron_workman before jumping on Tiko. Would wait til they get a faor amount of real world testing. They require cloud based operation and the motors used are not what you would want in a dependable machine. Lets just say it doesnt instill confidence in many peoples minds outside of it looks great.
i was joking, get a printrbot or something.
@cameron_workman forget the tiko, rofl - a Printrbot is a great starter printer.
Lots of great options for more money but there are lots of other options if you dont mind tinkering to tweak things. Such as Wanhao i3 its a chinese knock off but they can produce good results with possible tweaking needed.
Low prices are great but often an indicator to need tweaking or modification if you want a guaranteed ready to print well printer expect to pay more for it. Otherwise it’s a sort of gamble.
@Alexander_Larson , the Wanhao i3 is okay if you’re an experienced maker, but they choose some very dangerous settings with their machines as @Thomas_Sanladerer showed in his review of the machine. I wouldn’t recommend it for a beginner.
@ThantiK ahh yes this is a good point… PRINTRBOT!
For $500 either a Printrbot play or scratch and dent simple metal. Couldn’t recommend them enough
Under 500 most likely you will need to do some tuning. I would recommend something with a well developed community to look for help, like printrbot.
Depends entirely on your requirements and what your wanted print size would need to be. You can quite easily get some decent(ish) printers at that price but their print volume is quite small. Most decent printers with a reasonable print volume and quality build are at least $750 if not more. Even though Delta printers are amazing and can make some crazy prints, I would recommend if you are starting out, to rather get a cartesian style printer to learn with as they are easier to work with when problems do occur. (my opinion)
Although they can be quite slow, every Prusa i3 printer I have seen printing as always worked amazingly well. I speak of the original Prusa i3 not the clones. (I am not affiliated with them at all)
Thank you so much. I actually jumped the gun and got the Pursa i3. I got lucky I guess.
Thank you for the insight, very helpful.