Quote Originally Posted by curious aardvark View Post
Things you absolutely need:

Heated bed.

Things that are well worth having:

All metal hi temp hotend - the higher rated temperature for the hotend(s) the better.

Enclosed print volume. Useful for the more problematical filaments and hi-temp filaments. IE not much point having hi temp hotend on open frame printer.

Things that might not be as useful as you think:

More than one extruder. With the exception of the bcn3d sigma and a couple of the leapfrog machines that have independant extruders. These generally don't get used that much. Knowing what i know know. I would either not bother. OR get a machine with independant extruders OR two or more filaments feeding into a single extruder.

Auto bed calibration. It's one of those things I often think would be really useful. Then I read another post about someone having problems with the auto calibration and remember I calibrate my print bed maybe 4-5 times a year, and it takes about 5 minutes.
Sticky this please.