Is there much printing going on in Brisbane

[ewan400]

Hello everyone,

I am just wondering if anyone is getting many enquires at the moment on their hub. I have had a remarkable slow down on my printing service. I have only received 2 enquires for the whole month.

At the end of last year I had so many enquires I had to pass people onto other print hubs. I would love to hear how everyone else is going with their hubs.

[rygreeen]

You are 100% correct. I also used to get a crazy number of orders here on the Gold Coast and I haven’t had a single order in a month. I’m putting it down to uni being on holiday. I find most of my work is for uni students who go back to uni in a month. Lucky for me we now also have a dedicated 3D hubs ambassador for Griffith on the Gold Coast.

[thedoble]

I signed up about 3 weeks ago and have found the same thing. I haven’t had a single enquiry. My average position is usually around 8, and I have 600+ hub views. I’ve lowered my prices 3 times to try to get some interest.

Would love to know how many orders are being placed per month in Brisbane overall.

[rygreeen]

I’ve really beenjoyed trying to explain to people that screwing your prices down is such a shit idea. Through my website I charge 5-10 times what I charge on 3D hubs and get between 3-4 big orders weekly. You don’t realise how much work goes in to a big job through 3D hubs so why would you screw yourself by nothe charging enough. It’s really stupid.

[Matt_4]

I’ve had fairly constant work in Toowoomba for the last while, but I’m also offering design and prototyping. I just had an enquiry through to design and produce 400 chair-back things for a local church, I’ve got constant work with a local artist doing prototyping, and once I get my DLP back up and running that should also increase as his components get more detailed. Mind you, for clients with constant work I dial my costs right back, I do it to keep the machine running, 3D hubs and ongoing clients basically just pays for my material these days so I print personal stuff at no cost to myself. Having said that, I’m always looking for ways to expand both my business and capabilities

[rygreeen]

That’s sick. I run a similar setup to you with getting heaps of work through my website and advertising. I don’t really care if I don’t get orders through 3D hubs because generally they don’t pay much compared to the more custom design and prototyping stuff. I have just been looking at investing in a laser printer and dreaming about a polyjet printer. What DLP printer do you currently have?

[ewan400]

what type of laser printer are you looking at getting?

[Matt_4]

Polyjet? Hope you’ve got approved for a mortgage. Connex3 is $400k

[Matt_4]

Muve v1.1. It’s just been a pain getting it going, Z height calibration problems. I’m looking at building a big rap soon too or a Pwder and am planning on ordering a peachy for the lols

[rygreeen]

Yeah I looked into it yesterday and realised it was a bit of a pipe dream. Looking at getting a Gizmo3D DLP printer. They look epic.

[Matt_4]

The price point is decent for the build area but I don’t know why they’re selling in USD. Looks good though, I’d be interested to see how they print as the video looks a bit funny but it could be an intentional program thing with that design of the ball.