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Originally Posted by CedN
I bought a prusa mk3s, its been so good(bought the kit) . Printing perfectly out of the box without any mods. And im lazy so I use mostly prusament or materials which already have premade profiles in prusa slicer. The slicer is made by prusa aswell, and it all ties together really well.
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This is where the Prusa really shines. I'd point out that most PLA, PETG, whatever will print flawlessly on the Prusament filament settings in PrusaSlicer. If you get a little extra geeky and put a Raspberry Pi on it running Octoprint (get a RPi 3 or better, running off USB, the Zero technically works but it's underpowered) you can run the whole thing remotely from your computer. No back and forth with the SD card. Even better, you can manually add a +/- temp to the hot end and bed that stays set on the printer. I run a lot of PLA+ which likes just a bit more heat, so I just click in a few extra degrees and don't give any thought to it building the GCODE except the big differences like PLA/PETG/ABS.
One other thing - a bed levelling mod is gold. Either silcone or "beer can" works really well, though the silicone is a lot easier to install and maintain. Technically, it's not bed levelling as much as "truing" the bed to be perfectly flat. The printer will measure and compensate for the inevitable wave in the bed, but if you're printing parts that need to fit together precisely, you need that bed as perfectly flat as possible to get a perfect fit.
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Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo
I got a Prusa mini 18 months ago and it’s awesome. It has more than paid for itself in that time. Printing replacement parts for furniture and small appliances is a breeze.
My prints are mostly functional so I’m printing PETG with the 0.6mm nozzle. The printer is just fantastic, it just works.
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Check out PLA+ or PLA Pro. It's actually better than PETG for some stuff, and easier to print. Much harder than either PLA or PETG, and nearly indestructible when printed at high (or even 100% infill). I've made some extremely load-bearing stuff that holds up really well. It doesn't have stellar heat resistance, and I wouldn't use it as a suspension part, but it's tough as hell.
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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
I'll have to look at the prusa printers. What has kept me from jumping into 3D printing is just this. I don't want to become a 3d printer terchnical expert, I want to get into printing things.
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Prusa is perfect for that. The mini is a perfect intro to printing - it's not quite as "perfect" out of the box, but it'll do really impressive work right out of the box.
I had no experience with any aspect of 3D printing when I got my Mk3s. I was good with tools and tinkering with stuff, but I hadn't 3D modeled anything. It took a lot of teaching myself and bugging more experienced 3D printing people for little nuggets of advice, but I can ground-up fab just about anything I want now. (I have no skill on the artsy organic forms, but if it's a functional engineering part? Yup, I can do that.)