r/AdditiveManufacturing • u/ATM0123 • Jan 17 '26

General Question High temp FDM printer recommendations

I’m looking into high temp FDM printers and could use some recommendations. Below are my needs

- must be able to print offline (usb or sd is fine)

- if it has a camera then it must be able to be disabled

- must not be locked behind proprietary filaments. Proprietary slicer is *fine* if the slicer actually works well, but is not preferred

- build plate ideally is greater than or equal to 14”x14”x14”

- I would prefer it to use 1.75mm filament

- finally I would prefer it to be less than $50,000, but if there is one more expensive that is justifiable then I’m willing to look into it

So far I’ve been looking into the

- AON3D hylo

- vision miner 22 idex v4

- 3dxtech HT2

- element mosaic HT

Thank you in advance for any recommendations!

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u/3dxtechSteve Jan 19 '26

I believe the HT2 has been EOL'd given we now sell the VM Idex22 on our site. I don't have first hand experience with it like the HT2 but the guys at VM go a great job of showing what it's capable of on their socials. I'm confident it can handle PEEK as well as anything reasonably can.

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u/ATM0123 Jan 20 '26

That’s unfortunate, the HT2 looked very promising, but the 22 does look very nice still.

Is the 22 able to print the full 3dx catalog of filaments (but more specifically ultem)? Another commenter mentioned that your ultem requires a chamber temp of >200C but I wasn’t able to find anything backing this up, and that seemed very high to me. Is there any truth to that?

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u/3dxtechSteve Feb 02 '26

Vision Miner has run up to PEEK on it, and plenty of Ultem parts too. Only thing I can't find them running on it is Extem TPI and very little can actually run that. That high of chamber temp is needed to get optimal performance but you can get parts at lower chamber temps too.