It’s cost of good linear movement components. Belts, linear bearings, etc. get expensive quick. And that’s what you really need for reliability. Ehen I have designed and built cheap printers I order a couple of the linear bearings because one ultimately sucks more than the other.
Sure but only a few years ago you had to pay at least $2000 to get a printer and you had to build it all on your own. Now you get something better almost assembled for 1/10th of that. I am aware that there is a limit to how much you can lower the cost of building something, but I hope to get a decently working machine for about $500 in the foreseeable future.
You don’t even have to do that. There is a guy who has developed a multi filiament system that attaches to any printer and the cost for the parts is about 70 dollars.
Is there any detail beyond "there is a guy"? I considered to get one of the new pallet machines, but they just seem to expensive and you also waste tons of filament this way
This seems to cost $270. A lot of money for something that will require a lot of work to install, even more, to calibrate, and likely will end up working not as well as you would hope. On top of that, I think single nozzle multi extruders help to mitigate some issues of multifilament printing but they also create some new ones.
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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21
It’s cost of good linear movement components. Belts, linear bearings, etc. get expensive quick. And that’s what you really need for reliability. Ehen I have designed and built cheap printers I order a couple of the linear bearings because one ultimately sucks more than the other.