Woah. I wasn’t a fan of XYZ before, but if this thing has a remotely sane price tag on it I’ll be very impressed.
Originally shared by Anderson Ta
Ok, this deserves an immediate post. XYZ Printing has a UV Inkjet printer.
$299 for the printer $999 for replacement ink
Their booth was wild. Lots of strange products. They are all over the map. Their $1499 uv resin printer had some really nice prints. The $299 FDM is so cheap, but it prints badly. Their davinci now has a scanner but the demo left no confidence at all. I can’t figure these guys out. It’s almost like they are out to confuse the market. There is some value here and there but overall kind of a train wreck that will result in a lot of printers being sold.
I expect a kit to mod the cheap $299 printer will be out immediately. Oh, this on uses a single lead screw on the right side with a smooth rod… The other side just has a rod. They seem to have copied the one-up.
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Brook
They’re confusing consumers intentionally. Sell at a ridiculously low cost to drive out competition even though their printers don’t work for crap.
That’s a short game. And I don’t scare easily. Those that scare easily should leave anyway 
competition is good for everyone. Anti-competitive practices are far worse. And I don’t think they fall in that category. The cream rises to the top. Their business model will either fail or find a niche. I’ve never believed the razor/razor blade model will work here in the long term. Time will tell but in the meantime, we present our best and continue to build a different model around quality, great support, and openness.
I can’t figure them out either last year they launched the DaVinci at CES, I saw them at our show and then at Euromold they had the DaVinci All-in-one - the quality of the prints were abysmal. I didn’t think their SLA desktop machine prints were much cop either. They were quite secretive about their Objet clone and very few of them were willing to talk, we interviewed a sales guy but none of them know anything really. There’s a lot of tech come out of there in a very short space of time, I know the Kinpo group are one of the biggest OEMs in the world but that doesn’t guarantee anything really. WTF was the XYZ Farming thing by the way?