I looked at Stratasys when our business was looking into 3D printing. Their printers are expensive, no doubt, but what really put me off was the price and availability of consumables. We live in South Africa (i.e. far from the rest of the world) getting filament is expensive (shipping, taxes, countless middlemen), takes long and there is only one reseller (no competition). There were, in my opinion, extreme limitations to an other good product.

We settled on a Flashforge Creator X. Owning it we have learnt that with a fair bit of fine tuning and optimization, along with the application of some post-print elbow grease and spraypaint, we have been able to produce beautiful professional looking prints.