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Advice on a Printer (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
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I am very interested in 3D printing and I want to get into it. What would be a good printer for a beginner that is also of reasonable quality.

I don't want to make anything huge but I don't want to limit myself to any size that's unreasonably small.

Edit: Wow, you guys were all so helpful. While I haven't made my decision I have a lot more to go off of, I'm gonna do a bit more research into it based on what you have all said.

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[–] 5 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

Depends on what you're looking to get out of it. Printing medium-sized toys or busts or things without a lot of fine details? Probably an fdm printer like an ender 3 to start with.

Wanting to print miniatures for tabletop games like d&d or Warhammer? Probably a resin printer like a photon mono 4k or something.

The fdm printer will have a much larger build plate but lower quality, and resin will be much smaller but higher quality.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Don't buy Ender 3, it's not really good (it's probably the best in cost/value ratio, but not great in general).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Ender 3 isn't a great printer, but it's a great starting point to make a good printer with some work. It's not a great first printer with UNLESS you like the idea of buying a printer that needs work and plan on learning as you modify it. So, expect lots of print failures as you learn and modify the printer.

    This was how I learned printing. But I started FDM a decade ago with a SeeMeCNC Orion. Very crude compared to modern consumer printers.

    A buddy of mine bought an Anycubic Vyper on clearance and he's happy with it. It has solid bed mounts and a leveling probe, which resolves half of printer problems, and it has dual Z steppers, which I think helps a lot. I believe it comes with a steel PEI bed which is easier than glass to get good prints (and much easier than painters tape or kapton like my Monoprice mini).

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