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  • If you don’t like closed source printers, don’t look at anything from Anycubic. They all run proprietary FW that you cannot modify on proprietary controller boards, and their hot end also use a custom nozzle thats very close to a volcano but not enough to actually use standard volcano nozzles.

    FWIW I have the kobra 2 from them, but it was their last model where you could flash klipper on, and I switched out the hot end for a standard volcano ($35 mod). It’s a good printer considering I paid $250, putting out 200mm/s printing and 350mm/s travel with fairly good quality. I have put well over 1000h on mine and aside from bed levelling probe drifting a bit requiring occasional recalibration, it’s a solid performer.





  • why are you trying to change what I wrote? Its clearly there. I said none of that.

    Prusa being “for profit” isn’t the same as the term implies.

    Well then I misinterpreted what you mention by that statement, what do you mean by it, if it wasn’t that they’re not a “real” for-profit company?

    I suspect you have no knowledge of their platform or how they do business or where or the history of their founder.

    No I have plenty experience and use printables a lot, it’s a great platform. I’ve been in-and-out of the 3d printer environment since early 2010’s, I perfectly well know their history and what they once were.



  • Prusa are 100% a for-profit organisation/company, they don’t attempt to sell printers or services at anywhere near cost, which is absolutely fine too. They are very much what the term implies, which is that they’re a business that has (and wants) to earn money. To say they’re not a for-profit company is absolutely delusional.

    Yes having a semi-opensource approach is their gimmick to get goodwill from people to get them to buy their printers.






  • No I definitely like to have the option but not the need to tinker, so I fit in that category. But their printer performance and functionality is just so far below pretty much every competitor out there. I want a reliable printer, that just works unless I want to fiddle with it, but I want it to print both fast and well. The core one seems to print slow and quality that’s just average. I can accept the slow printing if everything else was just 110% spot on, sadly it just isn’t.