On Wed, 19 Dec 2018, Jay West via cctalk wrote:
Gene wrote... For what you're going to use it for, that's a good choice.
I wouldn't recommend it as a printer though. ;) (The design isn't bad,
but it's not a very newbie-friendly printer.)
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Gene, you're just sore that the $175 ender 3 is comparable to a Prusa i3
Mk3 that costs $800 (those words are from the all3dp.com reviews, not
me) ;) Actually, I think you're spot on when you say it's not
newbie-friendly because it requires some tinkering once it's out of the
box to get great results. Another side of that is that perhaps it's the
newbies that really SHOULD spend the time tinkering to get it right, so
they understand what to do when their other 3d printers go awry. I
suspect most of the people here are the tinkering type ;)
I'm not sore at all. Out of the 12 printers I have, only one is a dirty
little bed-flinger. ;) I recommended the original Prusa because it's a
good design (for a dirty little bed flinger), it's a reasonably affordable
choice if you can't join the Delta Hegemony, and it's newbie friendly. :)
For Emmanuel's(sp?) case, the Ender 3 is a great choice because he's not
going to print with it, he's just going to use it as a motion gantry for a
CNC controlled microfiche imager. If I had the time (and a stack of
fiche), I'd probably buy one for that purpose myself.
g.
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