What would be your TOP 5 3D printers ?

Alarev

Alarev

Alarev

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Hi everyone, I have to write a buying guide for 3D printers (available in the UK) but I'm nowhere near being a specialist in that field so I was thinking I could get some help from you guys.

So, what would be your TOP 5 best 3D printers of the moment ?
If you could recommend the best economical one, the top of the line and finally the best value for money, what would they be ?

Thanks in advance for your help,
Alarev
 
What's your publication so I can avoid it? You should be getting someone knowledgeable in the field to write the article.

"best" is subjective. Maybe it comes down to parts availability and service for example. Perhaps 'best quality', but might be slow as hell, or fastest possible, but quality suffers. Depends what the user wants/needs.

Perhaps start this conversation again, and give what you currently thing are good examples of what you think and why. Then we can discuss.
 
Scougar said:
What's your publication so I can avoid it? You should be getting someone knowledgeable in the field to write the article.

"best" is subjective. Maybe it comes down to parts availability and service for example. Perhaps 'best quality', but might be slow as hell, or fastest possible, but quality suffers. Depends what the user wants/needs.

Perhaps start this conversation again, and give what you currently thing are good examples of what you think and why. Then we can discuss.
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Thanks for taking the time to answer. I'm sorry if my question was not formulated in the best way, of course I need the help of someone knowledgeable in that field to write the article and that's what I'm trying to accomplish by publishing this post, I don't think there could be a better place than forums to find someone like that, not biased by any company and passionate about the subject.

Of course "best" is totally subjective and as you said some perks may come with some drawbacks and I'm not going to omit explaining those in my guide. My goal is to help people find products that suit their needs while staying in their budgets.
 
I see you also created an identical post on 3d print board as a new user.

I would strongly suggest that you actually go and do some reading of other articles, and start watching/reading reviews and come up with your own ideas first. Then bounce them off people.

Is this for college or something?
 
Slightly more serious answer - I'd have to include the Monoprice Select Mini in any top 5 or 10 personally - it might be lacking in some areas including not the biggest build volume but it is close to a plug and play experience, reasonably accurate, while having a good range of features and often on offer so can generally be picked up for a not terrible price. Great for producing things like custom switch knobs or figurines, etc.

This is a subject it is very hard to produce an article on credibly without a reasonable amount of experience including with the specific models though.
 
^^^ This.

It comes down to this... if you want less hassle.. you need to pay much more money.

Nearly every single printer will require some learning/experience and time being frustrated lol.

These days, unless of a severe budget, I wouldn't even consider a printer without dual Z (or proper support such as in delta), or anything without an electronic levelling system unless I planned to add one.
 
I 'invested' in an Anycube Mega. Can't really fault it - big print area, prints seem to come out fine. Spent nearly a month solidly non stop printing my solar panel mounts. Pretty easy to figure it all out. I've now added a dual extruder and replaced the header cooling fan after that heavy workload. Both pretty cheap and easy jobs.

Software is the same for all these printers isn't it (Cura?).
 
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