We currently have three operational 3d printers in our shop:

• A Prusa V2 printer, mostly from Makerfarm
• A large format DBot, water cooled and chambered
• An Anycubic Photon DLP printer, mostly stock

The Prusa V2 is a direct feed .35 mm variant, and can print rubber, PLA, and ABS in high x-y resolution. It is an older machine, though. It is slow, and the j-head type extruder does like to jam. It can comfortably print 5″ x 5″ x 4″ high.

The DBot is a CBot/DBot hybrid, with most of its parts having been cycled through and printed by itself. It has dual water cooled E3d nozzels, currently set at .5mm diameter for speed. It currently has a bowden setup, although I am looking to switch that out for a Automatic Tool Changer setup including a direct drive nozzle for printing NinjaFlex and the like. The current build volume is 8″ x 8″ x 12″ high.

The Anycubic Photon is a resin printer using a high resolution LCD screen to project UV light into a vat of UV curable resin. I am using this to make classic car parts. I don’t like it as much as the FDM printers. It stinks and requires gloves and PPE. But it produces very fine, super high resolution parts for a very reasonable price. The build volume is 4.5″ x 2.5 ” x 6″ high.