[ Closed ] Introducing Three New Solidoodle Models (Page 25 of 28)

My understanding is that just the SD Press is made in china The WB and WB Apprentice are still made in NY

From the pictures and info. SD provided, seem that there is only PRESS is assembled in China,
Because you couldn't find cheaper injection parts in U.S., but still designed by US, and WB and WBA, designed and built in Brooklyn, NY.

+1 LOL yet.

OH and Merry Christmas! albeit no Press or SDs under the trees

+1 and lol.

I personally chose my first printer to be a Solidoodle 4 because I just didn't know better, didn't have much cash, didn't have the knowledge to build a kit so needed assembled and the reviews I read were probably by people who didn't know much about 3d printing themselves.

The time I needed to spend fixing this thing and things I needed to learn I could just buy a kit (like Prusa) at same or cheaper price and build it or buy Flashforge/PlasticScribbler.

Can anyone tell me why they are still buying Solidoodles if they have bought one already and know what to expect and know there are better alternatives?

"Press" just seems to be an attempt to make a out-of-the-box ("plug-and-play") 3d printer (like Solidoodle 4 was meant to be, or at least meant to look like), and also an attempt to sell more of their filament.
I highly doubt it will be an out-of-the-box experience, knowing Solidoodle.

"Workbench Apprentice" seems to be a Solidoodle 4 minus the nice enclosure and with a smaller bed size (so dual extruder won't hit the walls) plus a second hotend.
Is there a point in spending +200 more than just buying a SD4 + a better quality dual extruder (E3D?) and replacing the SD4 one, probably still saving some money and having a bigger bed and a nice enclosure?

"Workbench" seems to be the same as Apprentice just larger build volume.
At tat price range, aren't there similar 3d printers/3d printer kits already?

Plus buying from a company who has dropped the quality control so much and being so unprofessional as to fail to fix an online shipping calculator for months now making you send them few emails every time you need some part, why?

Nice try. The SD4 enclosure takes less than a minute to take off. You're just saving cash.

I think the reason is its price and performance, the other expensive desktop 3D printers
Look better, but not much, still cannot make the perfect  plastic 3D prints that people
Expected by desktop 3D printers, so why we should spend 3-4 time money to buy an
Expensive one?
SD still is improving thier products continuelly, SD 4 has a lot of mods that make it is
Better than SD2 or 3, of course it can be improved more, the SD new line, Workbench,
WB Apprentice and Press have a glass with the heating bed, auto calibration probe,
front part fan for PLA and some mods we may don't know, I believe that the some idea of mods Sam didn't take that doesn't mean he doesn't like them, maybe he has some business concern,
or will take later.

But this isn't a Solidoodle exclusive forum. I see people posting help for other printers and get the info they need.
Most issues related to software are not SD exclusive, because the software is not SD exclusive. Same for extruder, motor, belt/pulley, heated bed, rod, motherboard (because Sanguinololu and Printrboard are not only used in SDs) and firmware issues, replacements and upgrades.
So even if there weren't other communities for other 3d printers (but there are, I've been in 3d printing google groups and 3dprintboard), I don't understand why that's a good reason.

Maybe I'm missing something?

@AOYOU3D: have you seen PlasticScribbler, Printrbot and Flashforge?
I think you're probably talking about Makerbot and Ultimaker printers which are indeed expensiver.

Fair enough.

But hasn't Solidoodle as an affordable printer been around longer than those? That would also explain why there's less mods for them in Thingiverse and less talked about here. And better quality/assembly could also be a reason why less issues are reported for those printers and less custom mods are needed, because they work better out of the box?

Printrboard has its own forum, with 7200+ topics, not that less than here (8000+).
At 3dprintboard Flashforge has its own section with 248 topics. And first post is from February 2014. Not that old.

And again, most of the Solidoodle issues are not exclusive to Solidoodle because the hardware or software is not Solidoodle exclusive.

Better community and better chance of getting help sounds like a good reason to still stick with Solidoodle in the end, but this seems more of a theory than fact to me right now.

  A very real possibility. According to Sam he is waiting for his ship to come in, it is sitting waiting for its turn to get unloaded. Then the container gets loaded on a truck and off to NYC.
I can only imagine the journey this has been both for SD and the hundreds of waiting customers.

IMHO Sam is attempting to stay current with product. He is trying to deliver a reliable product at an excellent value. So the customers wait and see what the new product brings.
tn

+1

It looks like the slowdown is continuing. I am sure glad that I didn't order a Press.

How is it that some people are getting extra spools with their press orders and others are not? If that's something they are entertaining for a few they should do that for everyone. I should not have to 'threaten' to cancel my order for proper customer service.