Through an accidental meeting about a year ago, I came to be one of the Cube 3D Printer’s biggest fans because my experience clearly demonstrated that the desktop machine was designed especially for mainstream markets. The Indestructible Cube 3D Printer went on a road trip with me and after spending nights in 20 degree weather, bouncing over pot holes in New York City and Boston, printing outdoors in wind and rain, and being jostled by excited kids at a FabLab event, it performed like a champ. I’ve been driving it around ever since to do workshops about 3D Printing. I love my Cube and I wondered how the Cube® 3 could be any better. Well, I just saw one running at the Inside 3D Printing show in New York, and 3D Systems has added some major advances that bring Desktop 3D Printing even closer to the ease-of-use requirements for mainstream markets.
Print Nozzle Built into Cartridge
Although the Cube is more user-friendly than any other 3D Printer on the market, it is still an extrusion-based system. All nozzles used for extrusion clog. No matter what the brand of printer, this is a reality of extrusion. 3D Systems has helped this bottleneck with a clever design solution – a nozzle built right into the material cartridge. Each time you change the material cartridge, you change the nozzle. So you start printing with a fresh, clean nozzle each and every time. As the British would say, “Brilliant”! And the cartridge price is still $49 each.
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