Da Vinci 2.0 3D Printer

[YosemiteSam]

The manufacturer will make most of its money from filament you buy later. Even if the company does make a bit of money from each printer sold, it makes a much larger profit margin on filament which cost exactly $93 per kg.

[Monkey_Nuts]

The manufacturer will make most of its money from filament you buy later. Even if the company does make a bit of money from each printer sold, it makes a much larger profit margin on filament which cost exactly $93 per kg.

Hi there, how did you get to this price? The cartridge has 600gram http://us.xyzprinting.com/Filament (weights 900grams inc spool)

So, about 1p a gram more to use this when assuming:

decent 1kg filament is £30
And the XYZ filament being £26 for 0.6kg (this is roughly how much it costs me from US inc taxes etc, da Vinci not in the UK as yet)

decent 1kg = 0.030 per gram

xyz Da Vinci per 1kg = 0.043 per gram

(? - I think!)

Even if you substitute £ for dollars, the da vinci price comes to about $43 per kg

so £10 or $10 more per cartridge. but then consider the advantages, for newbies, like myself don't have to mess around with different filaments and worry too much moisture and dust etc. More info on da vinci cartridge innards here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c46taMkkaLE

of course, this does depend on how many rolls someone gets through. I don't know, as I don't have a 3D printer. I am awaiting a zortrax, but have ordered a da vinci to play with.

And hopefully perhaps later on, someone will get round the microchip issue.

hope this helps,