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04-19-2016, 03:24 AM #5
Buy a CTC printer for $500 - that way you get a dual head and a whole printer. Yes they are crap, but no worse than a $400 Geetech printer.
Don't let ANYONE turn you off dual colour printing. Stand strong, tell them to eat your shorts. Yes you guessed it, they tried to stop me too
When I first was shopping for printers on 2011 there wasn't alot of choices. There was flashforge, leapfrog, makerbot$$$ and a few others - including the UP printer. I talked to the guys at UP and they told me so many times, dual colour doesn't work, it's a waste of money, no one uses it etc etc. They were so persistant, I got suspicious.
Well, that's because none of their machines had dual heads back then, but flashforge and others had it standard. I wondered - why am I paying $2000 for an Up but a flashforge with dual heads is only $1300? So I went and bought the flashforge.
Why are two heads better than one? it's not just dual colour printing. Get a blockage you don't want to clear or can't? take the head out, use the other one till it's fixed. Your printer doesn't have to be out of order - ever. Dual prints for using support material like HIPS that dissolves, so you use supports from one head and print the object from the other... among many other advantages.
Don't listen to the naysayers, they generally tell you not to because they didn't buy one and wish they hadHex3D - 3D Printing and Design http://www.hex3d.com
Printer will print perfect...
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