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Pretty happy with how it turned out- 0.2 layer height in PETG, took about 9 hours
That’s nice print!
it’s better to hobby with the kids, than not. When I first got into 3d printing…. My dad had one of those freebie inkjet printers; you know the ones… “free with computer,” but then the inkjet cartridges cost more than the PC did?
It ran out of ink, he was grumbly about it. So I asked if imcould have it. A few months later on was talking about printing stuff on it… I think he wanted to print out taxes. Yeah. “It doesn’t print those kinds of things any more…”
This was late 90’s? I read an article in … maybe it was popular mechanics or something like that… and got obsessed) that was a hideous printer.