Hello I am here on behalf of my Dad’s work. Their university is look for a high level print with a good budget. They would like to make models or molecules that half a ball and stick nature, chemical models, and other medical models. On behalf of them, I wanted to reach out to see if anyone had encountered a really nice printer that has most- all of the requirements below:
- Able to print multiple materials/color with Dual Nozzle
- It is not a desktop printer
- Able to print high speed
- High res, 50-100 microns
- Can print support material like raft, brim, and regular holding supports
Please link any printers you may have in mind. We would all appreciate it. Thanks.
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3D printers range from $100 to millions of dollars. What would be the schools budget and we might be able to better suit your needs.
Unfortunately you aren’t going to find a non-desktop style 3d printer for that price range. Most high-end desk top printers will fall into that category however that will definitely suit your needs.
-(Dual Nozzle)You can find printers with dual nozzles but do realize it is still a science and the full function is not all there quite yet. It still requires some tinkering before it is perfect. So if you enjoy tinkering and have patients this shouldn’t be a problem. 
-(Desktop Printer)Like I said due to the price range you aren’t going to be able to get a freestanding printer, but they do make some really nice “desktop printers” though aren’t really a desktop printer as they are big wont necessarily fit on a desktop easily.
-(Able to print at high speed) This is dependent on a lot of factors, but there are printers you can change the nozzle size, to where you can have incredibly fast prints but loose the quality because of the thickness of the layer. If you get an “Open Source” style printer, you can adjust the speed to wherever you would like, it just comes down to again being able to find the best settings for that particular print.
-(High Res) 50-100microns is easily achievable with the printers in your price range. Most can achieve better results than that. Just remember the higher the quality the slower the print will take. For instance printing something at 100 microns over 200 microns will take twice as long, because it has twice as many layers to print.
-(Support Material) Pretty much all printers have the ability to print supports, etc. This comes down to the software used. There are printers that are “open source” to where you can use a lot of great free software (Cura, Slic3r, etc), that has the ability to control exactly where you want the support and how much. Then there are printers that are company specific (Tiertime UP) that requires you use there software. The supports in these are automatically generated for you and cannot be changed.
Before I suggest a couple of good printers to you. Is there a specific build volume you are also looking for? Some printers can have a small volume of 100mm by 100mm by 100mm and then they just increase in size from there.
