I’ve been a printer for 30 years and have been on my own for 3. I have a wonderful wife and two daughters that keep me sane, so I’m not really in the position to complain. I do, however, take it as a challenge to keep my skills up to date, and I am proud that I have become a multi-million dollar business in the process.
If you ask me, the industry seems to be very competitive and has a lot of money to spend (both in terms of labor and equipment). In that sense, it might be easier to just be a printer. For example, I recently had to redesign a 3D printer that was built in the 80s. The old one was a 2D printer that prints on a piece of cardboard and is then scanned by a scanner to create a 3D object.
The old model was pretty simple. It had a feeder, which went into the printer, and a motor that moved the filament up and down. The newer one is now a 3D printer that feeds the filament through a nozzle and then through a heated plate. It has a built in feeder, and the filament can be fed out through a hose, so it is much easier to feed the filament through once its in the nozzle.
The newer model has a lot more power and a lot more advanced features than the old one. It has a built in motor to move the filament up and down, a feeder to feed the filament onto the hot plate when the nozzle is retracted, and a heater to keep the filament hot. These features were all built into the printer for years before the new one was released.
I know that there is a difference between the old and the newer model of Fine Art Printer. I used to be a printer repairman and so I know that there is a difference between the old and the newer model. I even remember the old one having a very easy to use feeder and heater to keep the filament hot. I was always disappointed that the new printer had no built in heater to keep the filament hot.
It seems like a lot has changed. I wish I had known about the heater years ago so I could have tried this printer on the older model to see if the heater was still there. So now I just use a traditional hot-end and a traditional hot-end to keep the filament hot. I have yet to find a filament printer that does the both of those things well.
What was one of the most frustrating things about the new printer? The lack of an in-feed heater. Although it’s always nice to have a heater, the new printer has no heater on the feeder port. This means that the filament will overheat before it reaches the heater. As with any other printer, the filament will have to be cooled down before it’s usable again.
I was happy to see that the new printer also has a heater on the nozzle. When the filament is too hot to handle, it will cool down and re-heat the nozzle. It’s this heat that will keep the filament hot enough to print the image. It’s the same principle as what a hot-end does, but without the in-feed heater.
The printer’s heater is very important because it prevents the filament from overheating before reaching the heater. The heater on the nozzle, is more important because it will also keep the filament hot enough to print the image.
One of my favorite printers was an old inkjet cartridge and filament dispenser. The cartridge was connected to a heater that made it heat up when the cartridge was full of ink. After a few shots, the cartridge would be full of hot ink and the heater would heat it up. The heater on the nozzle is just a little bit different.
