First, thank you for your time. The reason I'm here asking for help is that 3D printing is not a hobby for me, and I am not interested in it becoming a hobby. I own and operate a CNC machine shop and bought a $300 Monoprice Maker Select to prototype a new product that would have been extremely expensive to machine. I'll be damned if I'm not using the thing every other day to make actually useful things for the shop! Desk organizers, brackets for washdown hoses, hangers for air guns, work stops for our video measuring machine, jigs for assembly work, just all kinds of things that help our productivity.

I'm looking for a better quality, larger printer now. Budget is around $1500 or so. I'm wanting to use from .6mm to 1.2mm nozzles because I like my stuff to be clean looking and fairly accurate, but I'm not making artsy type things, and I'm getting pretty tired of 30+ hour prints.

The goal is to buy a printer that works as-is. Like I mentioned, I don't want another hobby, I just want a tool that works. I had Tiny Machines quote me a custom CR-10 V2 Pro, and to reliably print with the bigger nozzles, it was going to be about $1000 (E3D extruder & Volcano, TM Flex bed, quiet fans, etc.). So they recommended a Formbot Raptor 2.0 for the same price, which looks like a great machine on paper, geared more toward pro-am type users like me. BUT, it has very little information on it online, no real reviews, no communities, and nobody talking about them on forums, which scares me.

Any advise on the Formbot machine? Or any suggestions for another machine? I think I can get away with 300 x 300mm, but the 400mm beds look very handy.

Some examples of things I'm making: 20200109_085036.jpg 20191104_084657.jpg 20200109_110606.jpg 20200103_095430.jpg

To sum up:
$1500-ish budget
300mm3 minimum
1.2mm max nozzle size
PLA / PETG only
Not a toy