Hi I found a 3d printer that’s to good to be thru, and I wonder if someone knows this printer?
Thy offer a laser printer for $100.- ??? In my experience if it’s to good to be thru it is.
If anyone has some information please reply.
Personally I think its a came but I can by wrong, this is the website off the printer http://www.peachyprinter.com/
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MB3D
June 28, 2015, 11:46am
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It will be interesting to see, what ratings that printer will get. Due to the fact, that everything in the printer is snap-fit, I don’t expect it to be precise at all, there are extremly wide tolerances for such joints, if the construction is missing screws and pins for perfect alignment, also I can’t really see any kind of motor, that turns the mirrors. Of course this motor can be tiny, as it doesn’t move a heavy load, but I don’t think, that you’ll get a high detailed print out of a motor, that’s smaller then a AAA battery. The dropping system of the printer is fairly interesting, but I expect it to be very unpredictable in terms of print speed. Dependent on the viscosity of the resin, it may not level quickly, after another drop is added, this also requires a perfectly leveled table to place the printer on, I can’t find anything to adjust the printing area. My expectations are, that this printer will suffer reliability and that it has a huge tendency to have misaligned pieces that may cause issues. It won’t ever rival the form 1 or similar printers in the case of print quality and I’m sure, that the “let’s try 3d printing”-customers, which this printer is made for, won’t have the endurance to tweak the printer for decent quality, most likely they’ll loose interest after a few fails, throw 100$ of snap fit plastic and resin away, and that’s it. There are many reasons, why printers like the form 1+ are so expensive and why you pay a lot for their resin, these prices resemble the quality of parts, amount of testing and improvements during production.
Tanks for the quick reply, I know sufficient and wont buy this printer thx
Hey Enrico,
The Peachy Printer concept is certainly an interesting one and its designers have definitely been thinking outside the box when finding solutions to the problems of 3D printing with resin. Since I saw it a year or so ago, I’ve been watching it with interest but haven’t committed to buying one as it looks as though it would be rather messy and cumbersome to work with. I’m not sure I would ever expect the Peachy Printer to produce results of the resolution of a more conventional SLA printer but it’s far cheaper and it’s good to see people thinking creatively in designing new printer concepts. It shows that there are still plenty of new ideas to be had and that 3D printer design hasn’t got to the purely evolutionary development stage. Long term, I expect the Peachy Printer to become more of an interesting curiosity than the basis of a serious development direction. However, stranger things have been known so I think it’s a little premature to dismiss it completely. It’s worth just pointing out that one does not require a motor to direct a laser beam. I believe that the Peachy Printer uses a variant of the String Mirror Galvanometer, which is driven from the output of a PC’s sound card. In my opinion, a very creative and simple solution to a problem that usually demands very costly solutions.
Cheers!
AndyL
Pot8oSH3D
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MB3D
June 29, 2015, 12:10am
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Of course thinking outside of the box is something to support! The peachy printer might still be able to produce decent prints and the Mirror Glavanometer was something, that I didn’t know of in the first place, so excuse my (maybe too harsh) criticism. However I still think, that it’s too much to ask for, to produce a 100$ printer. I would prefer to get a printer like that for 200 or 300$ with the knowledge, that CNC milled precise parts are used with proper aligning screws etc. instead of snap fitting plastic, but that just might be my personal pessimistic oppinion. I guess we’ll have to see, how this printer turns out in sales and reviews, I’ll definitely check out some reviews of it to know, how precise it really is.
By the way the Form 1+ didn’t turn out as a reliable perfectly working machine when the sales started, but I think, that the way, a Form 1+ is going a more promising way, in my oppinion.
Cheers,
Marius Breuer
You’re right, Marius. It does seem rather counterintuitive that snap-fit plastic would produce precise positioning but I seem to recall that Peachy Printer changed their design TO snap-fit in order to have more precise component location and easier assembly. TBH, when I first saw it, I imagined the thing falling apart between my fat fingers, under my dull gaze ( really should polish my glasses more often! ) but the snap-fit parts are laser cut so maybe they’re as precise as they need to be - Quite possibly no more than that, though!
Cheers!
AndyL
MB3D
June 29, 2015, 3:19am
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As I thought of it, every snap fit has anything that is flexible to do the “snapping-stuff”, this flexibility can and probably will cause misalignment. Even if this misalignment is just a few tenth of a millimeter, this might be enough to cause the laser to miss the mirror. Imagine, what a laser can cause, when it lights on plastics nearly constandly during an 12h print or so …
We’ll see how that all turns out to work.
Cheers,
Marius Breuer
Hey, I’ll take a gable on this one by the end off the week I will order 1, just to see if it’s working properly, and I’ll post my findings on this site, thanks guys for the feedback
greetings
key23d
June 29, 2015, 4:36pm
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Hi Enrico,
I participated in the Peachy printer Kickstarter project and I will let you know what I think of it when I have received and tested it.
By the way, the $100 is only for the structure with the PCB, mirror and laser!
Kind regards, Guy
Ok I’ll wait for your reply :-))
Kind regards Enrico
@Enrico_Sorg Very much looking forward to your review! I am very curious
Just a warning that we had originally helped Peachy Printer with their first Crowdfunding. We’ll that was now 3 years ago and we have not yet received a printer or a refund. From the updates it seems they kept running into problems. At this stage (3 years later) the technology had been so much more advanced that I suggest looking into a FLUX or Robo 3D.
