/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1605912
>God fucking damn it printers are so dumb.
Thank open source AND corporate faggots for that. The quality of 3d printers under 1000$ is abysimal, there is no incentive for an established player like Canon or HP to enter the hobbyist 3D printer scene, because every freetard faggot would start screaming MUH OPEN SOURCE, and every corporate faggot would start screaming MUH PROPRIETARY FILAMENT. After all to make a good 3d printer all you need is good mechanics (stiff frame, linear rails/shafts), good electronics (adequate motor controllers, sufficient power for extruders/heated bed) and good software (slicer, wifi connectivity, resumable prints, etc). All of these things are the bread and butter of paper printer manufacturers, yet nobody seems to be interested in making a cheap sub $500 printer that works. We are stuck with half working chinkshit for the foreseeable future, I guess.