Looks good to me for the price it seems decent.

I have always liked open source reprap printers but i dont think i could build one from scratch much cheaper. The only thing that stands out to me is the filament cartridges. Ive always thought of cartridge as a scam to force people to use there brand filament at there inflated prices? I would do a price per LB or KG comparison or see if anyone has hacked a cartridge to make it refillable or even without the cartridge.

Im curious if anyone here has one that can tell us first hand.. I think it seems decent.

I think I read something about a refillable cartridge hack for this printer.

Thanks brw.

I did a quick dirty search on the cartridges.... 1.3 lb cartridge for $28 and there was an ebay seller selling 2.2lb rolls of filament for $20

If there is a way to hack the machine and fool it to think a cartridge is in the machine while your just feeding off from a spool it could save you allot of money.

How much filament would you normally use printing, say, Jd's head?

well cura says the front half of his head shell would use 49 grams at 20% fill density support material included assuming the back would be very close to the same lets just say 100 grams. so google says 0.22 lbs. so your 1.3 lb cartridge would print almost 6 heads something like that. the 2.2 lb roll would print 10

Unfortunately to get the printer able to print from a different cartridge you have to install a different firmware...

Technopro That's a bummer.

Here is a nice price for a good printer like i have built before. check this company out. https://shop.diytechshop.com/index.php?route=product%2Fproduct&product_id=55

What i love about reprap style printers is there is always smart folks improving it and offering there new improved ideas for everyone freely... Just like ezrobot.

Makerfarm also makes a prusa kit that is more wooden but has good reviews

With the stuff I'll be doing, I might not need a lot of filament. This printer might work.