It's certainly a direction to go. For people who could only buy from Lulzbot, etc Prusa is actually the cheap option these days. But for consumers, well I guess there is a reason I just build my own lol. It's a shame Wuxn is gone but I am sure there are others out there.

A lot of us will only do on-site machine type business with Prusa and Lulzbot.

Lulzbot kinda lost their momentum due to internal problems. The Prusa has higher effective resolution and is faster. The Lulzbot design was kinda 'first' in terms of being a reliable printer but didn't scale up the speed improvements. They also needed better capitalization.

Well if you want to use PRUSA for prints you can just hit the local libraries many of them use Prusa and have maintenance plans so all the broken stuff gets fixed on their machines w/out much trouble. Bed is small tho' so there are many things I have to print on the Lulzbot.

Filament 3D Printer Lulzbot Taz Workhorse $3,743.75 each 5665N14 Buying 3D printers online is great, everyone should do it!

Lulzbot made poor business decisions before the Chinese market came and spoiled the party. Sounded kinda like a company culture problem but I wasn't there to see it first hand. Unfortunately not much has been done with that brand since it was acquired either.

Lulzbot gave it an honest effort, then it got its lunch eaten by Chinese IP theives and Chinese subsidized factories undercutting any competitors. Until America can figure out how to break itself off from China, or at least get close to competing, every story will end up the same.

The 3 that could run -printrbot, lulzbot, makergear were not well capitalized. They started as hobby projects in the garage with crowd funded takeoffs. Even makerbot survived because of capital infusion. You recently raised and probably know how tough it is to get funding.

Curious. Why do you think that there were no US 3D printer manufacturers in the fdm market that matched the scale of prusa? Sure markedforge and formlabs are there but more enterprise. Lulzbot didn't scale. And there is a graveyard of others. What did the US miss in That era of hardware? We shut down our consumer machine to focus on the parts. But the customer support was always a mother.

It’s lulzbot guys. 😭

Lulzbot probably

Can finally get back to work converting my old Lulzbot Taz into a @RackRobotics desktop wEDM used totally not for making cool gun stuff. I definitely underestimated the difficulty of designing & building a new CNC, even if starting with the majority of parts in front of me

IIIDMax, Hatchbox, Protopasta, Jessy, 3DXtech... all great options. Lulzbot used to be a competitor, but their machines are very outdated. There are a couple other US built machines in the consumer / pro-sumer market, but Bambu really was the economic a-bomb that killed off the domestic market, thanks to di-minimus. Ive got to give props to @PrintedSolid and @josefprusa for the efforts. Will be nice to see Core ones with the steel and electronics made in the USA someday. blog.prusa3d.com/we-are-now-…

I’d like to see more Lulzbot content. I’m interested in seeing use cases and benefits. I believe they are worth the price based on parts cost and support alone. But seeing it in action would be cool. I’ll search your channel for any videos on the brand.

Absolutely! Love to hear this. Bambu Lab is the best user experience and the best print results really at any price range. They have machines that start at around the $200 USD range, and of course up through several thousand dollars. The A1 mini, and the A1 are great starter machines - and a step up would be the P2S, and then above that they get pricier but you can't go wrong with any of them. Also, when I say starter machine - they are priced that way, but they are VERY capable, and far from beginner machines. Outside of Bambu, Prusa makes great machines, but doesn't quite have the same user experience (although still great). Creality has been producing some good machines as of late, but user experience and build quality can be hit / miss. Sovol makes some awesome machines with a focus on being open source, but user experience is lacking and again the quality can be hit / miss. ELEGOO has a machine called the Centauri Carbon 2, and it is a well priced enclosed printer, but the user experience isn't quite up there with Bambu, but you get an awful lot for your money. LulzBot is made domestically, and they are built tough, but they lack some of the more common features of the other brands and are priced higher due to their focus on industrial usage, etc. Sorry for the long winded answer - hope this helps!

Currently running an order for a print farm of @LulzBot 3D printers. 2.85mm 4kg spools of Tough Pro PLA #3DPrinting #madeinusa

LulzBot gets a lot of undeserved hate from the mouth breathers and ackchyually mob. They’re American made machines, built tough, focused more on open source than any other 3D printer brand and you can speak with them on the phone and nerd out about your 3D printer anytime. Seriously. Go check them out! And no, they aren’t paying me to say this. I have an unhealthy obsession with their printers. lulzbot.com

I really should fix up my old Lulzbot... and maybe buy another one!

Lulzbot was pretty cool, but they couldn’t keep up. Chinese companies just wipe the floor with American ones on cost.

Eager to see how this turns out. I have a lulzbot that could be repurposed too. Are you going to use the same controller, or go for linuxCNC controls?