I just had a ZimVie Zimmer Encode. They wanted $328.00 CDN to make me a model in Florida. Are they F....g crazy??!!! Had Rotsaert lab decode it and make me an STL of the model for a fraction of that and printed it myself.
If you are serious about getting into printing look at a Asiga pro 4k and not the max. Spend the extra up front and you will not be sorry. The future and present is all about printing and you need the volume of the plate trust me. Do not sell yourself short you will kick yourself in the long...
Kaeser screw compressor the way to go. Not cheap but highly reliable. We have had ours for over 20 years. Runs all our mills and everything else in the lab that requires clean dry air. I think at the time I paid around $12,000
Finding someone to buy your lab is extremely easy. There are so many venture capital organizations buying up labs all the time. Big labs buying other labs happens all the time.