Quote Originally Posted by Bobby Lin View Post
I agree that printing with a quiet or subtle 3d printer is great while you're working, if you want some reference, you can purchase Ultimaker. It meets your criteria of running quietly and it produces good quality prints. However, in my own opinion I am not that willing to spend as much as $1000 just for that. I am more willing to spend as much as that for printers that have high quality resolution of prints and speed capacity.
Bobby,

I really appreciate the perspective. I'm curious, Do you care more about resolution or speed?

Also, do you have a standard by which you would judge speed? Even though mm/sec is a poor metric due to constant changes in speed and direction, is this a good metric? What is a good benchmark speed? 1800 mm/sec? Again, I really appreciate the insight!