We design all of our files to be printed on small printers-  If you have a 256 mm x 256 mm x 256 mm build volume, you can build all of our sets.  

If you have a bigger build volume, that's great- you can print multiple pieces simultaneously.   

Here is a list of all of the printers that I have personally used.

I was sad when Bambu announced that they were discontinuing the X1.  The P2S is the replacement.  It is the same size.  It does not not have the lidar, but it is supposed to be even faster than the X1, and costs less.  I ordered one, and I will update this post once I have started to use it.

This is my favorite printer.  I have 3 of these at home and 3 more at work.   This machine is fast, and reliable.  I have over 5000 hours of printing on most of these machines and all they need is a little lube on the screws once in a while.  I've never had to replace any parts and on the rare occasion that a print fails, its always my fault (usually a tangle in the filament.).   

I recently bought 2 A-1 minis for work.  My students wanted small pritners that they could take with them to robotics contests.   They are nice little printers.    These printers could by used to print my accessory and furniture files, but the print bed is not big enough to do the floor plates and walls.  

Last year I bought several of these for my high school engineering class to replace my Enders and Elegoos.  They are nice little printers.  My students find them very easy to use. They are noticeably slower than the X-1s, but the print quality is high.   This printer works for all of my files.  I do recommend this printer for people that are new to printing. 

I bought 2 of these when I got frustrated with the enders.  The leveling was easier, but the feet screws still fell off very often.    I did not have to replace the extruders on these printers, and they were pretty fast.  The print failure rate was pretty high.  You need to use a lot of glue on the build plate to avoid curling.    Again. you can print my files on these printers, but I don't recommend it. 

This is the first printer I bought for myself at home.  I printed my first toy diorama (The 1:12 scale brainwave scanner).   I likes how cheap this printer was, and ultimately, I bought 3 of them, but I only used them for about a year before I gave up on them.  They are very fussy printers. Leveling the bed was difficult, and compounded by the fact that the feet screws would always wiggle loose and fall off.  I had to replace the extruders SO MANY times!    I had a couple of these at work too- but I ended up giving them all away.  They were too hard for the students to maintain.   You can print my files on this printer- but I don't recommend it.

This was the first printer that I got where I felt we could get high quality prints consistently.  We used 3 of these on my robotics team for a couple years.  We gave them away at some point. 

Our second printer was not made out of wood.   It had a big build volume, but the print speed was very low.   It could do simple shapes well, but did not do complex shapes well at all.

This was my first printer.  Yes, it is made out of wood.  I bought it in 2012.  It could do 2 color printing with dual extruders, but it was SLOW.   We used it to make a a fwe parts for some science olympiad projects.