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Hi,
I'm about to purchase my 1st 3D printer. Any tips on which to get around £300?
So far I'm between:
XYZ Davinci Junior or
CTC dual extruder mk8
I'd be grateful for any advice.
Cheers

I think we gave an answer to this on .org forum but we can say it again here. If you are after the Da Vinci Junior we currently have a deal going at the moment for a Da vinci Junior + XYZ printing's new hand-held 3D scanner for £363 all in. It saves you about £70.

I don't know what would be better.

The Junior is going to be simpler to operate and the CTC will have more bells and whistles but all the bells and whistles won't necessarily work to the level that makes them practical.

Dual extruder printers sound great but it is not that easy to get them to work well so unless you have a particular reason for it I would not bother. They can be very handy where you want to make designs using two different materials (using different colours is not so important).

Basically the CTC will have a steeper learning curve than the other and require more tweaking. But if you stick with it it may pay dividends if you want to start doing more sophisticated printing, although by that time you will probably have out grown both.

mepaulc wrote:Hi,
I'm about to purchase my 1st 3D printer. Any tips on which to get around £300?
So far I'm between:
XYZ Davinci Junior or
CTC dual extruder mk8
I'd be grateful for any advice.
Cheers

XYZ Davinci Junior is fine or you can try to save up more money to buy a more reliable 3D printer like Printrbot play or a Novio 3D printer.

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XYZ Davinci Junior is fine or you can try to save up more money to buy a more reliable 3D printer like Printrbot play or a Novio 3D printer.[/quote]


Hello My name is Neil, Im new here , may I ask why you say "buy a more reliable printer" if the Davinci is "fine" ?
Is the Davinci not reliable ?

Hi Neil.
I bought the DaVinci junior a number of months ago and had no issues. Overall I am really please with the printer and would recommend.
Thanks,
Paul

mepaulc wrote:Hi Neil.
I bought the DaVinci junior a number of months ago and had no issues. Overall I am really please with the printer and would recommend.
Thanks,
Paul

Thanks for the feedback Paul.

Have you printed anything yet ?

Yes, I've made about 15-20 prints. I had a couple of teething problems at first, like getting the print to stick, but now it's set up i have no issues.
I'm on thingiverse - mepaulc - if you wanted to have a look at some

Cheers

Nice thanks for the feedback.

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