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Hello all,

I’m brand new to 3D printing - currently trying to learn as much as I can before making my first purchase. I’m looking for opinions / help deciding on which printer. I’m looking between:

Ultimaker 2 Etended,

E3D BigBox,

Lulzbot TAZ 5,

Type A Machines Series 1 Pro,

AirWolf 3D AXIOM,

CubePro.

Basically, I’m looking for size, quality and reliability. Speed isn’t my first concern - though I don’t want it to take a month per print; decent speed whilst at good quality with quality being a higher priority.

As I’m new to 3D printers, I have read up a lot on the features which make things easier like auto levelling and such and am wondering about how much of a difference these actually make.

I’d also be looking to print in multiple materials which I appreciate will me to use a dual extruder (or I even seen a triple head on the CubePro?)

I’ve read differing things regarding enclosed vs. open and being as I have no experience would like some help on this please - this is one of the reasons I’ve leaned towards the AXIOM over the Lulzbot or Type A (as these have been the three I’ve been thinking of mostly).

I seen the AXIOM have just released a dual extruder which sounds lovely and could fit perfectly but I keep finding my way back to the others too, hence I can’t decide!

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

TIA, Mark

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Did you ever buy a 3D printer? If so which did you get

I’m strongly researching the Airwolf Axiom 20

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Hey jcamper,

I purchased an Fusion3 F400-S.

I’ve had quite a few issues with it, though their support has (mostly) been good.

I was advised that AirWolf3D’s customer service was particularly poor and as a newcomer, I felt I would need assistance that they may not have provided, and at a fairly high price point I wanted more.

I have been happy (again, mostly) with my purchase. The learning curve has been great and I may have expected more than what was reasonably to be expected from a 3D printer. I had to tailor designs a bit to get the prints running but once I did they printed fairly well.

I am not an experienced user like many on here so can’t say the Fusion3 is better or worse than others but I’m overall happy with my decision and believe they’re worth looking into.

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Believe it are not the Fusion 3 and the Airwolf is the two I’m trying to decide between.

Both seem to be GREAT printers and I honestly don’t think I can go wrong either way