By no means meant to be insulting. Part of the confusion is from Solidoodle themselves; they mix it up all the time. Proper terminology makes it easier to search the forums, though.

that and spelling or abbreviations of things. ;^P cant find my own posts sometimes

Hotend, you mean. The extruder feeds the filament.

It's OK shield, I get that confused all the time. We know what you mean.

It is surprising to me they don't just ship with the e3d, or offer it as an upgrade. They could immediately tell users "we support a vast array of materials" instead of "ABS all day but PLA and you're on your own". Not to mention all the support requests they'd save on from hotend problems. Of course this also means shipping with a beefier power supply.

I am interested in seeing how the all metal extruder performs on the Press, though, but it's the same PEEK hotend.