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Lab talk, the good, the bad, and the ugly
3D Printer
Printer options for high-capacity printing?
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<blockquote data-quote="tuyere" data-source="post: 357344" data-attributes="member: 26916"><p>I am definitely interested in next-tier machines that further automate printing and post-processing; normally our biggest production bottleneck isn't machine capacity but labour, one person can only deplate and post-process so quickly, and when there's 5 or 6 printers running sometimes they all finish simultaneously and then there are printers sitting idle for 45 minutes waiting for someone to deal with their finished prints. We can add more machines, but the returns diminish and our productivity per printer across the lab drops as the labour for post-processing gets stretched thinner and thinner. </p><p>We just have no experience with these systems and I've never used one so I don't know where to start- Rapidshape seems to make some very slick systems, and I've heard that Rapidshapes are popular as top-tier dental printers in Europe so they're assumably not making clunkers, but our experience with a P30+ was horrendous, mostly thanks to Straumann's support that actually managed to make things worse every time we called. My experience with Formlabs stuff is that it's great for smaller or lower-production labs but lack the robustness/build quality for a lab that's running prints full-tilt 3 shifts a day; things start getting sloppy after a year or two.</p><p>Wish I could pick someone's brain who's run one of these auto-deplating, auto-post processing etc systems, they're very tempting but it's such an expensive roll of the dice to make.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tuyere, post: 357344, member: 26916"] I am definitely interested in next-tier machines that further automate printing and post-processing; normally our biggest production bottleneck isn't machine capacity but labour, one person can only deplate and post-process so quickly, and when there's 5 or 6 printers running sometimes they all finish simultaneously and then there are printers sitting idle for 45 minutes waiting for someone to deal with their finished prints. We can add more machines, but the returns diminish and our productivity per printer across the lab drops as the labour for post-processing gets stretched thinner and thinner. We just have no experience with these systems and I've never used one so I don't know where to start- Rapidshape seems to make some very slick systems, and I've heard that Rapidshapes are popular as top-tier dental printers in Europe so they're assumably not making clunkers, but our experience with a P30+ was horrendous, mostly thanks to Straumann's support that actually managed to make things worse every time we called. My experience with Formlabs stuff is that it's great for smaller or lower-production labs but lack the robustness/build quality for a lab that's running prints full-tilt 3 shifts a day; things start getting sloppy after a year or two. Wish I could pick someone's brain who's run one of these auto-deplating, auto-post processing etc systems, they're very tempting but it's such an expensive roll of the dice to make. [/QUOTE]
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