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With the advancement of additive manufacturing technologies in their material processing methodologies and variety of material selection, 3D printers are widely used in both academics and industries for various applications. It is no longer rare to have a portable and small desktop 3D printer and manufacture your own designs in a few hours. Desktop 3D printers vary in their functions, prices, materials used, and applications. Among many desktop 3D printers with various features, it is often challenging to select the best one for target applications and usages. In this paper, commercially available and carefully selected thermoplastic and photopolymer desktop 3D printers are introduced, and some representative models’ specifications and performances are compared with each other for user selection with respect to instructional applications.
Build Size | Layer Height | Printing Speed | File Format | Printing Software | Nozzle Temp. in C° | Bed Temp. in C° | ||
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Creality | Cr-10s | 300 × 300 × 400 mm | 0.1–0.4 mm | Normal: 80 mm/s, Max.: 200 mm/s Filament | STL, OBJ, G-Code, | CURA, simplify 3D, Repetier-Host | 260 max | 110 max |
Cr-10s pro | 300 × 300 × 400 mm | 0.1–0.4 mm | <180 mm/s, normal: 30–60 mm/s | STL, OBJ, G-Code | CURA, simplify 3D, Repetier-Host | <260 | <110 | |
Ender 3 | 220 × 220 × 250 mm | 0.1–0.4 mm | 180 mm/s | STL, OBJ, G-Code | CURA, simplify 3D, Repetier-Host | 255 | 110 | |
Cr-X | 300 × 300 × 400 mm | 0.1–0.4 mm | Normal: 80 mm/s, Max.: 100 mm/s | STL, OBJ, G-Code, JPG | CURA, simplify 3D, Repetier-Host | <260 | <110 | |
Prusa | I3 mk3 | 250 × 210 × 210 mm | 0.05–0.35 mm | 30–200 mm/s | STL, OBJ, G-Code, JPG | Simplify3D, Cura, Slic3r | 300 | 120 |
Makerbot | Method | 190 × 190 × 196 mm | 20–400 microns | Up to 500 mm/s | makerbot, STL, OBJ, G-Code, | MakerBot Print, MakerBot Mobile | N/A | N/A |
Replicator+ | 295 × 195 × 165 mm | 100 microns | 175 mm/s max | Makerbot, STL, OBJ | MakerBot Print Software, MakerBot Mobile | N/A | N/A | |
Z18 | 300 × 305 × 457 mm | 100 microns | 175 mm/s max | STL, OBJ | MakerBot Print Software, MakerBot Mobile | N/A | N/A | |
Ultimaker | 3 | 215 × 215 × 200 mm | 20–200 microns | <24 mm3/s; 30 to 300 mm/s | STL, OBJ, X3D, 3MF, BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG | Ultimaker Cura Cura connect |
180–280 | 20–100 |
S5 | 330 × 240 × 300 mm | 20–600 microns | <24 mm^3/s; 30–300 mm/s | STL, OBJ, X3D, 3MF, BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG | Ultimaker Cura Cura connect |
180–280 | 140 max | |
Formlabs | Form 2 | 145 × 145 × 175 mm | 25–100 mm | N/A | STL, OBJ | Formlabs | N/A | N/A |