Not bad enough we are being abandoned....I love having my XL dissed by Prusa
Straight of their website about the IDX.
Filament-switchers can be slow and wasteful, while full toolchangers mean swapping heavy, expensive print heads.
Gotta tell you...kinda feeling a FU Prusa. I can tell you I won't be buying another printer from you ever.
RE: Not bad enough we are being abandoned....I love having my XL dissed by Prusa
Settle down. To be honest they aren't wrong, but the XL was the best technology at the time. Using your argument every MMU owner should say FU Prusa. Why didn't you give us this instead of the kludgey MMU! Until something new is available, it doesn't exist.
Mini+MK3S+XL 5 Tool
RE: Not bad enough we are being abandoned....I love having my XL dissed by Prusa
I won't be upset if there is some kind of upgrade path, like every other Prusa I've owned.
But if they abandon the XL platform entirely they'll lose me too
Head swaps are still faster than INDX - and did you notice the two new toolheads for the XL?
Cheerio,
RE: Not bad enough we are being abandoned....I love having my XL dissed by Prusa
lol. Ok. What's the second toolhead? Not showing up in a search but regardless, the only one I am aware of is third party created, not Prusa created. It's niche and $1000.
And the speed difference is only for that small, loud group of speed obsessed users.
RE: Not bad enough we are being abandoned....I love having my XL dissed by Prusa
Exactly.
RE:
Perhaps I should rephrase I won't gamble with Prusa ever again.
Past that, I'm telling anyone else what to do.
Oh, and you can FU too. Settle down yourself. 8)
What's the second toolhead?
Pick and place.
the only one I am aware of is third party created, not Prusa created. It's niche and $1000.
Niche? A whole new realm of engineering manufacture with high temperature, flexible materials is not exactly niche - I foresee a huge range of applications for light engineering especially for things like seals, gaskets, shock absorbers and even domestic objects like straps, shoes, or even fishing lures.
And there will be UV setting gels with all the properties of resin prints, possibly conductive gel inks and even foodstuffs...
$1000 is very cheap for that sort of upgrade.
Maybe a few trinket printers will sell their XLs to local workshops who will find them invaluable.
Cheerio,