3DPrinting @lemmy.world Krauerking @lemy.lol 4w ago

Apparently, the last time I owned a working 3D printer Solutech was still in Business

Man, what else have I missed?

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Tons of incremental updates.

Based on the printer in the picture I think you have one of the answers, lol.

The other answer is slicers, but if you're using Bambu's you've also seen that change now.
- Hahaha yeah, my last printer I bought before this one was a prusa mk2 and I don't mean 2.5 I mean 2.
  
  So I've never had a removable build plate even.
  It feels a whole lot more than incremental.
  
  I actually havent actually used the bambu slicer yet either. Just been using internal files and the whole app thing to print test pieces.
  
  If you are using Bamboo slicer, you are pretty much using Prusa slicer since it's directly taken from that with minor changes. I've noticed I've been slowly migrating away from Prusa slicer, a fork of Marlin, to Orca slicer - which is a fork of Bamboo. The reason is Prusa slicer is now concentrating on updating for the new Mk4 and XL printers with a nod to the Mini. I'm still quite content my Mk3s+ and don't need all those new updates for printers I don't own.
I still have rolls of Solutech at the shop :D
- Lucky. I had opened most of mine and I don't think my Ziploc bags held out as much water as I would have hoped.
  
  It is a sad day, this printer deserves all the solutech. That filament was so good.
  
  Dehydrating isn't impossible
Damn I didn't know Solutech went out of business. I like(d) their filament and still have a couple spools left.
- I was deeply upset when I went looking for them and realized there was nothing.
  
  The QR code literally took me to a scam gambling site and that was my first clue.
Multi-Color Printing!!!
- Fucking hell, that's a lot of money.
  
  I just bought a P1S but I don't plan on buying an AMS because they cost so much.
  
  I got lucky and mine was free because I bought used... That is a whole lot of AMS going on in that photo.
- Yeah I just tested my first multi color... And jammed the printer with my brittle old filament...
  ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ
  
  It probably has moisture, dry it in an old food dehydrator from goodwill or get a filament dryer.
Yeah as with any new gotta have technology, there comes a point where a great weeding out of less than efficient providers happens. And it's been happening to many 3D companies for a while now.
- Yeah it's a lot of different names and I thought I was keeping up but I guess I shouldn't expect the same companies from the days of repraps to be unchanged in this new era of auto printers.
lol My new Carbon printed it's way through two rolls of 7 year old PLA last week and it's doing fine with the equally old ABS (all Hatchbox). I also have one old roll of PLA and a couple of PETG that are less useful, but they were no-name stuff that were troublesome new and are at least partially to blame for me giving up on printing back then.

Still, it's nice to see 3d printing is finally not too finicky to tolerate. With this machine, if I get a failure, it's a lot easier to narrow down the cause.

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