Hi everyone, i am planning purchasing a Zortrax m200, but as it will be used in a small room im concerned about the smell. I orginally was going to get the ultimaker 2+ because i heard good things, its exotic filament ability and also, it looks cool! but the Zortrax m200 has caught my eye, the print quality seems to be the best Iv seen though my research and at the end of the day i think quality trumps everything else. But does its own brand of abs smell? also, how bad is the smell of ABS anyway? is it that bad or are people just being overdramatic?
I personally think it has the least smell out of any ABS I’ve used. There is some smell but I print in a smaller room too and there isn’t that much of a smell. I can certainly tell when I am printing other brands of ABS though.
I have 4 zortrax running at the same time. It smells like as bad as the other ABS and I think I am not supposed to smell this since it is bad for health.
ABS smells very bad but without any modification you are able to print Z-Ultrat. This is nearly PLA. But if you use a z-temp and a zt-he hotend you are able to print nearly everything what you want and in my opinion, the printquality of zortrax is better than from ultimaker 2+.
I just bought a Zortrax M200 a week ago and have only tried a couple of prints with the standard Z-ABS in blue color. I don’t think that it smells much at all. I would actually have expected a worse smell, since I have tried ABS on a Cubex Duo printer earlier, which really stank :o).
I also have it in a small 2.5mx2.5m room. The ventilator noise though is something to take into account though, if you are supposed to work right beside it while printing. The sounds from the stepmotors and printhead moving around while printing is not noisy at all, and I was positively surprised.
