Reply To: Anycubic 3D printer – it's not bad at all

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Interesting take. I find the resin printers to be absolutely reliable and consider them more of a “pro level” machine, whereas I find FDM can still be really finnicky and still in the “hobby level” end of the scale (I guess it depends on how frequently you get failed prints as to where you see it as pro/hobby?).

I spent years refusing to even acknowledge 3d printing as a thing, because it was all FDM and so flaky!
My own FDM printer (an early self-built Tronxy) has an auto level detection which is a god-send (but even then, I still smear the base with pritt stick to get a good first layer or two). About 95% of my printing is in resin.

I love the idea of detecting a failure early on and telling the printer “forget that one, save the rest”!
I think printers – if you don’t believe they are already there, they will be very soon – are reliable enough to make home/hobby manufacturing a real possibility for many of us. Of course there are always those who refuse “new technology” and still play CDs – but in the main, 3d printing feels like the early days of mp3 downloading: yes, it’s mainly the nerds doing it, but the “normies” are getting interested too. It won’t be long……

I’m toying with the idea of getting a bigger resin printer.
But in all honestly, I struggle to fill the build plate as it is, as I tend to just print half a dozen or so minis at a time (sometimes duplicating the two or three I actually want to have disposable copies to mess up the paintjobs!)