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Huh? 3D printers haven been cheap and reliable for a while now. You can get an Bambulab A1 mini for $200 USD and it’s a work horse. If things break, get a new part online from them and it’s usually plug and play. I’m north of a thousand hours on my P1S and it’s still going strong.

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Every time there's an article on HN about 3D printing you have a flock of people who have obviously not looked at a 3D printer in 10 years come and spout absolute nonsense.

As you're saying, modern printers are simply click and forget. I haven't had any maintenance or fix to do on my P1S in 2 years.

Add DJI "revenge investing" in Elegoo and one has the Centauri Carbon which is almost impossibly inexpensive, and which triggered a series of price reductions which landed me a 4-colour 3D printer at an impulse-buy price over the Christmas holiday to add to the Centuari Carbon which churned through a roll of PLA left over from my setting up an Ordbot Quantum roughly a decade ago in less than a week.

Looking into getting an additional 3D printer so that I can have 9+ filaments loaded and not need to swap spools around....

First time I heard about DJI investing in Elegoo. That’s super interesting

Yeah, the irony is the CCP is a major holder in both companies.

I wish Prusa could work up a way to make a machine to directly compeat at the low-end, but as they have noted in blog posts --- they can't even source the bare components of the low-end printers even in very large quantities for what the now entry-level printers from China are selling for.

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