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PLA only, and they don't mention head speed? (how fast it builds)

Replicator 1 was 40mm/s, which was slow at the time, and glacial now. (Tuned Prusa Mendels do 250mm/s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz56RY6OjM4 ORDbot does faster than that) If they're not talking about the head speed, then that means it'll be lower than 40mm/s.

That and they still use 1.75mm filament, which is 40% more expensive than 3mm filament, and offers only slightly better print quality, again, at the cost of print speed.

I also don't know why they're talking up the 100 micron layer height. Ultilimaker printers will do 50 micron layers pretty easily.



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