3D Printers And Accessories: A Few Comparative Secrets

by Andy Hathway Consultant With 3D printers and its accessories, nowadays you have lots of choices. From the simplest desktop 3D printers to the most complicated self-scanning industrial ones, the 3D printing technology has a lot to offer to the world.

But with the number of options available, there are lots of unknown secrets too about the same. Here are some of them to add to your knowledge, while you plan to buy a 3D printer for yourself:

• DIY 3D Printer Kits vs. Fully Assembled 3D Printers:

While you choose an offline or online 3D printer marketplace to buy your products, there’s something you need to know beforehand.

A DIY 3D printer kit is a cheaper alternative than a fully assembled 3D printer. However, such a kit could take even a day or 2 to get assembled, and is an extremely intricate task for the noobs.

Also, the suppliers of DIY printing kits might offer you warranty, but only when you yourself assemble the kit correctly.

• Single Extruder vs. Dual Extruder 3D Printers:

Against the single extruder ones, the dual extruder 3D printers offer you better options such as printing in two colors or printing dissolvable supports with the help of secondary extruder.

• Prusa i3 3D Printers vs. Metal 3D Printers:

Prusa i3 desktop or industrial 3D printers are not considered too strong in terms of its structure. The build platform of such 3D printers should move to and fro in the direction of Y axis while printing. Also, to ensure precision, the build platforms of such 3D printers should be stable enough.
 
But if you talk about the metal 3D printers, they come with a hefty metal box construction and their build platform is really very stable.

• Delta 3D Printers vs. Cartesian 3D Printers:

The calibration of the delta type 3D printers could be both time consuming and complex too since it needs a mathematical model in order to control the axis.
However, the Cartesian 3D printers offer an ease of control by easy calibration and straightforward coordination.

• Available vs. Real Build Size:

You need to know this well that the available build size of a 3D printer is not the real one. And in terms of materials such as Nylon, ABS and PLA etc., the build size of the objects would get shrunk after getting printed fully, more often for the large objects.
These are some of the printing secrets that you need to keep in mind before you buy a 3D printer for your home or industrial use. And importantly, you need to get all your products from a reliable 3D printer store to resist any troubles in your 3D printing jobs.

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