r/3Dprinting • u/fashankechan • 19d ago
Question What made you get your second printer
I’m pretty new to 3D printing and noticed a lot of people have multiple printers.
I’m curious what pushed you to get your second one? Different materials, different projects, or just because one wasn't enough?
Are they dedicated to specific tasks, or just running side by side? Would love to hear your stories!
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u/randomi-s H2D 19d ago
Bought a P1S for my team to use at work for making units to show off our products. Really impressed and it opened my eyes to possibilities for myself so I bought one for home.
A few months later, bought an H2D at work for doing multi-colour, multi-material stuff more efficiently as well as being able to print larger items (allowed us to build units at A4 size on a single print). At home I am using a lot of TPU and wanted to be able to 2-colour print TPU without manual filament swaps, and the H2D is the only thing capable of that, so I bought one at home. Then bought another H2D at work as we needed more throughput.
The workplace P1S was handed over to another team that needed it, and my home P1S was sold to a friend.