Someone was telling me that Makerbot has announced that another replicator 2 will be released in January that will have dual extruders and will be available for $2800. I don't know where they got that information but I hope it's true.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:06 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dperko@efn.org" target="_blank">dperko@efn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I *just* came across this before checking my email. News travels fast!<br>
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PLA only. :-( I want to print some things that will be out in the weather. (Am I correct, Kassie, that PLA The<br>
example pictures look really nice, however. I wish the pictures were higher resolution.<br>
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We definitely seem to be on the cusp of a whole new level of print quality for a fairly reasonable investment.<br>
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> No kidding!<br>
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> .1mm layer height is pretty impressive. Particularly if it does that with near no tweaking! My best is .06mm and the<br>
> best I've seen is .01mm, regardless they are on par with the best.<br>
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> Hardware improvements look meh. The largest improvement is clearly the new slicing engine. They ditch skeinforge!!<br>
> Wonder if I could use it on my machine.<br>
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> Nice to see a company trying to tune its machine for performance before sending it out!<br>
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> But the cost, 2200 for the single head. Ouch, but might be worth it if you want a no hassle setup on a quality<br>
> machine. Seem like you are paying a lot for getting good software setting.<br>
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> $B$I$&$>$*$2$s$-$G(B<br>
> Kassie<br>
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> On Sep 19, 2012, at 1:01 PM, Rick Osgood <<a href="mailto:rick@richardosgood.com">rick@richardosgood.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Now I really want one of these. And it comes fully assembled! Makerbot has come a long way that's for sure.<br>
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>> Rick<br>
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>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Rick Osgood <<a href="mailto:rick@richardosgood.com">rick@richardosgood.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Holy crap a new replicator:<br>
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>> <a href="http://makerbot.com/" target="_blank">http://makerbot.com/</a><br>
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>> It looks pretty awesome. The resolution increase alone is amazing.<br>
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>> Rick<br>
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