Prusament - Will Ultimaker go broke?
Tbh I was shocked when Prusa released yesterday their own filament.
The best filament you could buy in the past has a tolerance interval of 0,05 mm (which is a tolerance of 0,1 mm). That is why Ultimaker is using 2,85 mm filament. Prusament has a tolerance interval of 0,02 mm (tolerance of 0,04 mm).
In short, with the Prusament you can now produce parts that are at least as precise as the ones from an Ultimaker because they loose the advantage of the 2,85 mm filament being in percentage more precise than the 1,75 mm one.
Re: Prusament - Will Ultimaker go broke?
From what little I know, the two are apples & oranges. Unless Prusa expands into 2.85 machines, or Ultimaker moves down to 1.75 (and a considerably lower price point) I don't see that as a significant concern to either.
YMMV.
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Re: Prusament - Will Ultimaker go broke?
I'm looking forward to it hitting Amazon.
Re: Prusament - Will Ultimaker go broke?
From what little I know, the two are apples & oranges. Unless Prusa expands into 2.85 machines, or Ultimaker moves down to 1.75 (and a considerably lower price point) I don't see that as a significant concern to either.
YMMV.
I think the point trying to be made by the OP was people would buy Ultimaker to use 2.85mm filament to get more consistent extrusion since the filament variance is a smaller percent of the equation. Since Prusa is changing that with 1.75mm, will people would stop buying Ultimaker for 2.85mm. This would assume people buy Ultimaker to get 2.85mm for that purpose, which I don't think is really the case. I doubt Ultimaker has anything to worry about from Prusament.
Re: Prusament - Will Ultimaker go broke?
From what little I know, the two are apples & oranges. Unless Prusa expands into 2.85 machines, or Ultimaker moves down to 1.75 (and a considerably lower price point) I don't see that as a significant concern to either.
YMMV.
I think the point trying to be made by the OP was people would buy Ultimaker to use 2.85mm filament to get more consistent extrusion since the filament variance is a smaller percent of the equation. Since Prusa is changing that with 1.75mm, will people would stop buying Ultimaker for 2.85mm. This would assume people buy Ultimaker to get 2.85mm for that purpose, which I don't think is really the case. I doubt Ultimaker has anything to worry about from Prusament.
Y'know... that reason/argument didn't even make the radar of why I (or I imagine most other folks) made the decision to go with a MK3 as my first printer. Now that I've used it and learned more about the tech and "hobby", it still doesn't make my list of criteria ("Prusament" notwithstanding) for any potential future printers. I just don't see it as a game changer.
IMO (again, from what I know of it at this point in time) 2.85 will either be (speaking only from a USA POV) the Betamax (vs. VHS) of home 3D printers, or one of the dividers between home/"hobby" and pro/commercial printers. IOW, apples & oranges. 😉
YMMV (and that's cool w/ me--we'll all just have to see how things shake out). 🙂
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