This is sort of a warning to anyone who thinks of getting one of these printers.

When it works, it works really, really well. And I can't believe how good the quality is of the prints that come out of it, considering how shitty the overall "toy-like" construction of this printer is. There is zero rigidity in anything - you look at the extruder the wrong way and it flops all over the place. There is slop fits everywhere and it's only by gravity that the nozzle ends up sitting in the same spot. But somehow, it really does produce beautiful prints when it works.

THAT BEING SAID.

The communication from the M3D team is the worst I've ever encountered with any company, ever. They issue new updates to the software about every 2 weeks, and it's like a shitty zoo - they just throw some food into the pile of animals and walk away and let them fight over it to try and figure it out for themselves. There's zero listening to our comments, and there's zero feedback from them on what's going on on what they're doing. We're left to guess what any of the buttons or strangely named things they've put into their software. It's deplorable. Then they have the nerve to post on Facebook and Twitter all these public events they're doing to drum up support for the thing.

This company I fear is going to find out the very hard way that it can't market this thing as a "the First Consumer 3D Printer" and pay zero attention to the User Experience. If they went public today with the product they've made, they'd go out of business in a month.