How much would you pay for a 3D printer? Admittedly, when we start using a decent printer, its price may exceed $1000, but the cost has been greatly reduced. Unless you’re a pro. We are disappointed that this article does not include prices, but we have noticed a trend: if your 3D printer has stairs, it may be a big deal. According to the label line on the post, these printers are more than $500000.
Expensive printers often have unique technology, a higher degree of automation, large capacity or a combination of them, and other factors. At least two of the mentioned printers have stairs to the top of the machine. The black buffalo is a cement printer that uses a rack that looks like part of a concert light show. It is retractable, but it can obviously reach three stories high!
Size is not always the biggest factor, but it helps. The exone S-MAX Pro has a capacity of 1260 litres (see video below). On the other hand, the optomec lens 860 looks big, but not that big. However, it does make large titanium alloy parts, so it does. For wow factor, SLM solutions NXG XII 600 has a total of 12 lasers. The power of each laser is 1000 watts.
We put some videos below. View the high-resolution print head on the black buffalo. Are you kidding? Our printer is almost as big as the orifice of that thing.
We have seen some fairly large printers before. Of course, some printers do not have to be very large to print a really large print.