You see, it allows you to create objects with up to 24 colors and 3 different materials (ABS, PLA, and Nylon). The triple-extruder system is the most important part, however. If it's quality you want, though, 3D Systems, through its Cubify brand, has created a much larger printer with three print heads.Ĭalled CubePro Trio, it has a price of £3,440 / €4,300 / $5,100 (although exchange rates are usually misleading in this) and a build volume of 200.4 x 270.4 x 230 mm / 7.88 x 10.64 x 9.05 inches, which is the largest for this class of printers. The Cube sounds like a great high-end consumer printer, but it still has to make some concessions in order to maintain a relatively accessible price point.
The CubePro Trio is leagues beyond the Cube And with dual jets, you can even combine two colors if you want. There's enough material in each cartridge to print 13 to 14 mid-sized objects through Plastic Jet Printing (PJP). Good for when you make a model at work or at home, but the printer you have access to is somewhere else, not connected to the computer through the network.īoth ABS and PLA plastics are supported, at a thickness of 200 microns (for speed) or 70 microns (for detail).
Moreover, you can copy print files from your PC to a USB sick and connect the flash drive directly to the printer, to print right off it.
You only need the Cubify app (for Mac OS X and Windows, freely supplied with the printer itself) to initiate a print process. Altogether it measures 13.3 x 13.3 x 11 inches / 335 x 338 x 280 mm, but its build volume is of 6 x 6 x 6 inches / 152.5 x 152.5 x 152.5 mm. The 3D Systems Cube is basically a compact consumer printer with a price of around $1,099 / €1,099. Specifically, it brought out both its small and its biggest printer for the consumer FDM class. While XYZPrinting seemed happy looking at the mid-range and low-end 3D printer market, 3D Systems decided to focus more on quality at the IFA 2014 event.