Since there was no single topic for 3d printing, which I think is pretty big nowadays, I decided to create one.
Let's use this for all generic 3d printer related discussion.
For one, let me start with a question. I'm looking through the printers available, and have a hard time deciding. Are there any experienced owners with a dual extruder printer they'd recommend to others? (I'm interested in dual extruder ones because I saw firsthand how limited a single extruder gets without a separate, soluble filament for support structures...)
I experimented with a Makerbot Replicator 2 at one of our offices... All over the web it is praised as the most reliable 3d printer, but that was pretty far from my experience. The temperature sensor on the hothead is mismatched ("by design"), and reports higher than actual temperatures, making the printer unusable if you don't know to add 20C to all temperature settings by hand. The filament pull mechanism is subpar, and the factory slicer program is of questionable quality, and makes some really stupid decisions about where to put (or not put) supports...
So if the market leader is such a sorry beast, I began wondering about all the others...