Upgrading your print farm may not be necessary, I talk about my experience with running my Ender 3 v2 print farm after 4 years, and where it machines stack u...
I found this interesting. It’s a different view point than “buy the latest and greatest”.
As inefficient as it is, for smaller quantities it does still to be quite a bit cheaper and faster than older methods. There’s obviously a breaking point, but if you don’t know you’ll hit that point, I imagine that it’s pretty easy to just keep going with FDM prints beyond the line where you could have saved money if you’d known ahead of time.
That said, I don’t do that. I sell articulated toys at the local market. So far I’ve always made way more than enough to cover my costs, and I figure I’m about 1/3 of the way to paying for all my printers, including the 1 I actively use, the 1 I rarely use, and the 2 that I never use.
I figure that upgrading to a Bambu would give me multi-color capability, and remove a fair bit of stress from my printing. So I’m pretty tempted, but I’m trying to wait to see what they release next.
As inefficient as it is, for smaller quantities it does still to be quite a bit cheaper and faster than older methods. There’s obviously a breaking point, but if you don’t know you’ll hit that point, I imagine that it’s pretty easy to just keep going with FDM prints beyond the line where you could have saved money if you’d known ahead of time.
That said, I don’t do that. I sell articulated toys at the local market. So far I’ve always made way more than enough to cover my costs, and I figure I’m about 1/3 of the way to paying for all my printers, including the 1 I actively use, the 1 I rarely use, and the 2 that I never use.
I figure that upgrading to a Bambu would give me multi-color capability, and remove a fair bit of stress from my printing. So I’m pretty tempted, but I’m trying to wait to see what they release next.