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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It'd be nice if there were open source printers. Somehow we have a few for 3D printers but not 2D printers, and it is annoying as hell.

[–] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

It's because the printer heads are really hard to make, since the individual nozzles are so tiny.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

An decent SLA 3d printer (which will be much more accurate than an FDM printer) can get down to feature sizes of 150 microns. A 300dpi paper printer is hitting about 85 microns, and that's not even a particularly high resolution printer.

Source on SLA printer feature size: https://formlabs.com/blog/3d-printer-resolution-meaning/