Does Prusa have any plans to make a gigantic printer (ie furniture size)?
The XL is cool and all, but I'm just wondering if Prusa has any plans to make any really big printers that could print like a chair in one sitting (pun intended). I've been searching the market and there are some decently priced ones out there, and some oh-so-not reasonably priced ones, and looking at them I'm just thinking Prusa could make a darn good one if they wanted to.
The big printers are laying down concrete to produce entire houses and the gigantic ones are making civil engineering projects...
Visit one of the big additive manufacturing *Industry* events/conferences, not the hobby ones, TCT and Formnext rather than Comicon or a RepRap event. When you see printers making human kidney microstructures from collagen, turbine parts from sintered tungeston, aerospace sections using welded aluminium wire as filament, yachts from UV laser cured gel and you go to speak to the bloke standing inside a room sized printer then realise he is just a lifesize print of the salesman grinning behind you, you discover that an XL is not the end of the line...
Whilst Prusa knowhow would be an excellent basis for the sort of project you outline and they *are* developing projects at the smaller end of the professional market their real strength is still with the upper end of the cheap hobby printing market - yes, the XL *is* cheap; but as for plans, you will have to ask Joe.
https://blog.prusa3d.com/prusa-pro-our-industrial-product-line-at-formnext-2023_85533/
https://blog.prusa3d.com/prusa-pro-ht90-is-here-the-only-3d-printer-an-engineer-needs_98411/
Cheerio,