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Contents
Present printers
Name | Color | Extruder | Temperature | Design | Electronics | Firmware | Operation Status
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Beta | Wood | .35mm | 220C | Open Hybrid Mendel | RAMPS | Marlin | |
White | White | .35mm | Hot Tip: 205C Bed: 55C | Open Hybrid Mendel | RAMPS 1.4 | Marlin | |
Rainbow | Rainbow | .5mm (TBD since the "new" hot end had filament stuck inside) | 203C | Open Hybrid Mendel | RAMPS | Marlin | |
Gold | Gold | .35mm | 200C | Open Hybrid Mendel | RAMPS 1.4 | Marlin | |
Big Red | Red | .35mm | 210C | Open Hybrid Mendel | Rambo | Marlin | |
McDonalds | Yellow / Red | .5mm | 210C | Open Hybrid Mendel | Monotronics | Marlin | |
Blue and White | Blue and White | .35mm | Hot tip: 210C, Bed: 0C | Open Hybrid Mendel | RAMPS | Marlin | |
Black | Black | .35mm | 220C | Open Hybrid Mendel | RAMPS | Marlin | |
BioFab@Home | Acrylic | Syringe | - | Fab@Home | RAMPS | Marlin | |
Yellow & Green | Yellow & Green | .40mm | 185C | Open Hybrid Mendel | RAMPS | Marlin | |
Brown and Blue | Brown and Blue | .40mm | 230C | Open Hybrid Mendel | RAMPS | Marlin |
Printers Under Construction
Name | Color | Extruder | Temperature | Design | Electronics | Firmware |
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Prusa i3 XL | Black and Red | Paste | N/A | Extra Tall Prusa i3 | RAMPS | Marlin |
Alpha | Wood | ? | ? | |||
Mondo | Wood | ? | ? | |||
Green | Green | ? | ? | |||
Rainbow2 | Rainbow | ? | ? | |||
Wallace | White | 0.35 mm | TBD | |||
Delta | Red/Wood | Bowden | Unknown |
Former printers
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Museum | |
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Huxley | |
Fab@Home | Fab@Home V2 |
Cupcake |
Desktop/Personal 3D Printer Manufacturers
These companies sell 3D printers and kits intended for personal, DIY use with some potential for commercial application
BitsFromBytes.com
Bits from Bytes is part of 3D Systems, and sells a range of low-cost 3D printers and 3D printer kits including the 3D Touch and RapMan 3.2.
Cost: Discontinued see Cubify
Boots Industries
Boots Industries produce a low-cost thermoplastic extrusion 3D printer called the Rostock, and also make nice 1.75mm PLA filament.
Cost: $1,899
The Buccaneer
This kickstarter project completely blew its funding goal of $100,000 and has funded $1.5 million. This project is hoping to have the buccaneer compete directly with Makerbot's Replicator 2, but for a much cheaper price.
Cost: $347
Cubify
Cubify is part of 3D Systems, and sells several thermoplastic extrusion, consumer-grade 3D printers. These range from the single-material Cube, to the larger, multimaterial Cube X Duo and Cube X Trio.
Cost: $1,299
CB-Printer.com
CB-Printer is the first domestic 3D printer to be produced in Poland. Its '3D Printer CB-printer' is available either fully assembled or as a kit.
Cost: $2,239
Delta Micro Factory Corporation
The Delta Micro Factory Corporation is a Chinese 3D printer manufacturer. Under their PP3DP brand, the company sells the UP! range of low-cost, desktop 3D printers which use thermoplastic extrusion to build plastic objects. The same printers are also imported into the United States and resold by a company called Afinia.
Cost: $1649
Fab@Home
Fab@Home is a research project involved with 3D printers. They produced two machines, an iteration I and an iteration II. They did not directly sell their designs, but there was for a time a company which sold Fab@Home kits.
Cost: ~$2,000
FormLabs
Formlabs produces a low-cost desktop stereolithographic printer called the Form 1
Cost: $3,299
Makerbot Industries
MakerBot produces a range of desktop 3D printers targeted at professionals. The company claims around a 20 per cent share of all 3D printers sold. They have recently been acquired by Stratasys
Cost: $2199 (mid-range product)
MakerGear
MakerGear develop products and services for the maker community, and sells its own M Series thermoplastic extrusion 3D printers in both kit and fully-assembled formats, as well as some RepRap open source models.
Cost: $1,775
Mixshop
Mixshop sells kits of various RepRap variations and their own Mix G1 printer.
Cost: $549USD
Portabee
The Portabee is a small, low-cost and foldable thermoplastic extrusion 3D printer available either fully assembled or as a kit.
Cost: $395
PrintrBot
PrinterBot produces very low cost 3D printers in both kit-form and fully assembled. The company's printers are based on thermoplastic extrusion, and have iconic laser-cut-plywood body panels.
Cost: $299 - $999
RepRapPro
RepRapPro sell a wide range of kits for building open source RepRap 3D printers based on thermoplastic extrusion technology.
Cost: Roughly $1000
ReprapUniverse.com
ReprapUniverse.com sells kits for MendleMax and Prussa open source RepRap 3D printers.
Cost: $1000 - $1200
Solidoodle
Solidoodle is a fully-assembled, low-cost 3D printer available in 'base', 'pro' and 'expert' versions.
Cost: $499 - $999
Ultimaker
The Ultimaker is a lightweight, robust and very well respected thermoplastic extrusion 3D printer that in group tests frequently beats all rivals on the basis of its speed and quality of output
Cost: $1640 - $2600
B9Creator - 3D Printer High Resolution DIY
This is a kick starter project is a cool initiative to develop a low-cost kit for a stereolithographic (SLA) 3D printer.
Cost: $2,795
Club Printers
Name | Color | Extruder | Temperature |
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Solidoodle #1 | Silver
Ruby |
.25mm
.25mm
? |
200C
200C
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