Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:44:13 UTC No. 988321

>>988317
No, plastic is over $20 on cheap questionable material. $40 on legit material. Power to run your machine overnight is over $100 if you don’t plan to stop it. So, average price to sell your product is over $150 dollars just to be equal. Shipping costs also contribute towards your business and will increase your loss. All totaling $200 to make a profit.

Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jun 2024 20:30:37 UTC No. 988327

It can be, but you're competing against a lot of people with a lot more printers, models, reach, and experience. Don't look at a printer and assume it'll print you money by selling useless little knick knacks. It's not the novelty people will spend money on like it used to be. This goes for both fdm and resin printers.

Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jun 2024 20:41:34 UTC No. 988330

>>988321
>Power to run your machine overnight is over $100
lol are you legit retarded?

>>988317
shop? no. multiple printers printing flexiTM models 24/7 and setting up a table at fleamarket/holiday craft fairs? unlimited funds. you don't even need a bambu just rainbow filaments. the last guy I met was running 20 printers and his shit was AWFUL.

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jun 2024 02:21:04 UTC No. 988357

dont be a scrub
you can 3d print injection molds.
forget waiting hours for 1 print. in 1 hour you could shoot 1,000 parts

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jun 2024 04:26:24 UTC No. 988360

>>988317
the novelty of FDM (filament) is rubbing off, SLA (resin) does have a market with miniatures and figurine enthusiasts, but it is very saturated and handling liquids is not for everyone, the shit I've seen people do...

I think you can recoup the cost of your printer and some materials if 3D printing is already your hobby, but it's unlikely you could make minimum wage running a farm

>>988357
injection at home is dumb, or you must have a serious market to do it over of epoxy/polyurethane casting

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:20:57 UTC No. 988378

>>988317
>buying a 3D printer and open a 3D print shop
I've been to one of those, they mainly cater to architecture firms and b2b prototypes.
Unless you're getting commercial quality machines that vastly outperform anything consumer grade that's doomed to failure.
See picrel, forget FDM unless it's high performance material, forget SLA.
I'd wager the best bet would be SLS as price has come down for the machines recently and running them is cheap.

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:19:35 UTC No. 988409

>>988378
the price hasn't come down, there's one cheaper SLS machine that's on kickstarter and won't come out for years.
It looks sick though.

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jun 2024 22:04:51 UTC No. 988426

>>988409
https://sintratec.com/sls-3d-printer/amp/sintratec-s2/

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jun 2024 23:46:26 UTC No. 988432

>>988426
If you have to ask for a quote, it's not affordable.

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:35:16 UTC No. 988433

>>988432
It tells you the rough price right on the site. About the quote that's not applicable, if OP supposedly wants to make a business out if it that's to be expected.
B2B transactions just happen that way, which means you can haggle btw.

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:44:42 UTC No. 988434

>>988433
if he's asking here he's not taking out a business loan to spend $15k on an SLS printer.

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:59:10 UTC No. 988469

>>988321
> Power to run your machine overnight is over $100

this has to be a troll or a child

Anonymous at Sun, 21 Jul 2024 13:24:14 UTC No. 990353

not op here, about to start 3d printing myself and i just wanna print high quality minis for myself. anyone know where i can find some stl files at a heavily discounted rate?

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:07:12 UTC No. 991170

>>988317
pretty risky investment, but maybe you will at least break even

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:18:23 UTC No. 991172

>>988317
i got a 3d printer, had the same plan, but got bored of it
have a friend who makes money off it, he has 2 resin printers running 24/7 sometimes, its a lot of work in cleanup and preparation, and lots of failed prints

lets start by dividing it into FDM and resin printers for amateur, one you print and its done, other you need a lot of space and chemicals for clean up
and i think bigger problem is finding clients than printing itself, my friend has constant work from one place, but you would have to fish for it

for powder and other fancy printing just give it up, you need a big company and hundreds k of $ to set it up

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 20:00:46 UTC No. 991177

>>991172
>and lots of failed prints
I've watched a couple videos from a guy (pretending to be a chick to get more views) running a print service and it's like those guys have no idea what they're doing, you're not supposed to have that many failed prints

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 21:06:47 UTC No. 991191

I bet you could make good money 3D printing and selling illegal gun mods and off-brand car parts.

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 21:41:04 UTC No. 991195

>>988317
You can make some profit but wont make a living
Focus on USEFUL niche things/solutions that people can only buy for an eye except for you

Anonymous at Fri, 2 Aug 2024 18:03:28 UTC No. 991402

>>988321
>Power to run your machine overnight is over $100
wat

Anonymous at Sun, 4 Aug 2024 12:06:50 UTC No. 991531

>>988317
Unless you're in China I'd say no.