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Lab talk, the good, the bad, and the ugly
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<blockquote data-quote="tuyere" data-source="post: 360209" data-attributes="member: 26916"><p>Most printers are 'plug n play', dental and hobbyist both, at least until you run into problems- then you need to actually understand the nuances of the resin printing process to figure out what's going on and correct the issue. Otherwise you're just getting failed print after failed print and wasting material changing variables arbitrarily (are my supports too thin? are the contact points too small? are there islands? is there debris in the print tank? is the FEP film damaged? is this just a lousy bottle of resin? etc etc) hoping for an improvement. </p><p>"It's plug and play!" is basically always a pernicious sales tactic, imo, one that often hobbles the effectiveness of newly-digital labs because it convinces potential buyers of machines that they can immediately launch into 3D printing or milling without any specialized training or personnel, which is never true- and it makes spending money on that training or those skilled personnel a much harder sell after the fact, even after it becomes apparent that a digital lab doesn't run itself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tuyere, post: 360209, member: 26916"] Most printers are 'plug n play', dental and hobbyist both, at least until you run into problems- then you need to actually understand the nuances of the resin printing process to figure out what's going on and correct the issue. Otherwise you're just getting failed print after failed print and wasting material changing variables arbitrarily (are my supports too thin? are the contact points too small? are there islands? is there debris in the print tank? is the FEP film damaged? is this just a lousy bottle of resin? etc etc) hoping for an improvement. "It's plug and play!" is basically always a pernicious sales tactic, imo, one that often hobbles the effectiveness of newly-digital labs because it convinces potential buyers of machines that they can immediately launch into 3D printing or milling without any specialized training or personnel, which is never true- and it makes spending money on that training or those skilled personnel a much harder sell after the fact, even after it becomes apparent that a digital lab doesn't run itself. [/QUOTE]
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