Hello guys you might be wondering why I'm not doing this on my other blog, it's mostly cause my other blog isn't meant to "blog" on.But I'm thinking about doing so. I have a lot of things to blog about on that topic.
So anyways, the real cost of printing. Ok so if you ever heard of the Filastruder, it it a machine you can use to make filament from plastic pellets, which is what the big companies have to do. These companies make plastic seem much more expensive than it really is. For example, (I by my rolls pretty cheap) one roll of plastic (usually 1 kg) is about $25 U.S.. In reality, you can by 1.2 kg of plastic pellets for about $13 U.S, but you would need something to turn pellets into a roll for your printer.
One thing you should never do is buy something from an online website because they are all ripoffs. Here's an example. Before I got my printer I asked a 3d printing service from etsy.com to print a gear cube, and they said it would cost $56. After I got my printer, I got my $20 roll of plastic and printed all, the parts. When I was finished I realized how little plastic had been used. Much less than 1/20 of my plastic. I had spent plastic, but barely any. If you're new, you don't know that 3d printers print almost hollow will some little lattice structure for strength, but that saves tons of plastic. So the whole print cost me less than a dollar.
As you can see 3d printers are really cheap to use. That's it for today, and if I got you interested comment and check out my other blog, "printerprobs.blogspot.com"!!!
Here are my sources:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:10483 http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/310-0009?green=DE7CF9F9-5D37-5000-BAFC-6D08EC54BE16&utm_expid=8634549-27.0czCl7fSQamjILoiAH9mgA.0&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcmelectronics.com%2Findex.aspx http://colorfabb.com/pla-pellets-pack-216 http://www.filastruder.com/
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