Getting married and Need a new printer! (Page 1 of 2)

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If you want something *now*, probably the FF Creator.

From what I have read the FF creator still has a good rep and pretty much leading the pack for out of the box dual head machines. They have an all metal pro version that retails for IIRC  around $ 1300 or the wood box version for around $ 900.
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I think I speak for everyone when I say "Welcome back"!...and congrats to the engagement.
FF, BigBox, and Airwolf have either a strong reputation or good reviews in recent months.
BigBox is a pretty big selling point for me personally because I have not experienced any flaws from any E3D stamped product I've come across....
But BB will take a few months. So I would say FlashForge or Airwolf for all shotgun-wedding sensitive events

Indeed - congratulations and welcome back!

Count me in! I will put myself on whatever waiting list you have.

^ Thank you to all. I couldn't be happier.

However, they will be a bit more stable. My machine is a bit high maintenance and in an unknown state right now. I will be using my SD3 for vases, but I really just want something that is point and print. I think the FF creator or a clone like this.

2n2r5, Congrats for your future wedding ! I'm glad for you that you had the 3d printing hobby BEFORE you got married... Easier on you, definitely !!

I just give you my input, which is worth not much, but here ya go :

My poor SD3 was messing up recently, and I had to take it all appart again, and mods mods mods to come... To do those mods, I had to print some parts naturally, but the poor SD3 was not going to help, wobble was horrible, just regular wear got it.

I was crusing on craigslist, and I found a powerspec 3D pro for 500 usd, with a shit load of ABBS and PLA (7-8 full rolls). This is a copy of the FF pro, very good machine, with a smaller print area than the SD3, but has dual extruder, and has very small work to get it working out of the box. Put in the sailfish firmware, and it'll read Gcode. level the bed, do a Z shim, and glass bed holder, and here ya go, with high quality and reliable prints.

for this price point, it's unbeatable. A lot of people think that 3d rpinting is awesome, they run to the store, and buy one, and after a little bit, they get tired of it, because it is very far from being a inkjet or laser paper printer. all of them need tinkering... So people usually end up selling them on craigslist for the price they paid it, claiming it's brand new, but you just shoot them an offer, wait for a little bit, they all will come back to you as you are their last chance to recover a little money from their investment.

I hope my advice will help you, and I know you are very capable (even better than I am) at recovering a semi Used machine into a good reliable printer.

Best of luck to you, and keep on going with your great input !

cheers

If you can't make it work well, no one can.

I have a metal version of this one. It so far is the best I have owned and when paired with Simplify3D it out performs you 3 Grand plus models.

I am running Simplify3D also. I am not printing through USB right now but I do get the gcode from simplify3d and print from the card. It will be nice to dig into this printer a bit and see how best to improve it. That is for a later date though, I need to just keep this one running until I get the wedding printing done.

the file is liaopangtong.x3g

It looks as though you may be marrying way out of your league
Oh, and the invitations look pretty nice as well

Glad to see you haven't lost your sense of humor
Give her a year, she'll figure it out
Seriously though, congratulations.