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3D Print Farm Talk - Should You Upgrade? - Some Experience with Old vs New Machines
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As inefficient as it is, for smaller quantities it does still to be quite a bit cheaper and faster than older methods. There's obviously a breaking point, but if you don't know you'll hit that point, I imagine that it's pretty easy to just keep going with FDM prints beyond the line where you could have saved money if you'd known ahead of time.
That said, I don't do that. I sell articulated toys at the local market. So far I've always made way more than enough to cover my costs, and I figure I'm about 1/3 of the way to paying for all my printers, including the 1 I actively use, the 1 I rarely use, and the 2 that I never use.
I figure that upgrading to a Bambu would give me multi-color capability, and remove a fair bit of stress from my printing. So I'm pretty tempted, but I'm trying to wait to see what they release next.