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3D Printing BusinessExperience

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Order situation: Too big, too soon?
Hi everyone, Just sharing a situation I got myself into recently and how other people would handle this particular scenario differently? I reached out to a company as I felt I could print some company-themed merchandise (did a few prototypes and had some great feedback). The only issue was that this company had a conference event and requested 200 of this product but with a hard deadline of 1 week. I did the maths, scaled down the model as much as I could but there was no way I could’ve possible done 100 of these prints in 1 week, even 50 was going to be a stretch. I worked out the profits and even considered buying more printers but I would’ve made no profit doing this and just didn’t have the liquidity at the time, so in the end I had to turn down my first big order simply because I didn’t have the capacity to print so many. I have since bought another H2C and an A1 to give me more capacity, just wondering would any of you do something else in this situation?
1 like • 1d
Depends on the product, is it single color? Multi material? Buying another printer will be the easy way out, but what if the buyer backs out? Most farms run single nozzle cuz it's cheap.
💼 Community Jobs Board
Looking for fulfillment partners outside of Germany. 🌍 I regularly receive orders from customers in other countries where shipping from Germany is slow or expensive. Instead of turning those orders away I want to work with people in the community who can handle fulfillment locally. What this means: you print and ship my products to customers in your country. I send you the files, specs and quality standards. You handle production and shipping locally. One important detail: I use ironing on most of my products for a clean smooth surface finish. I need to know if your setup supports this reliably before we move forward. If you are interested drop a comment with: 🏳️ Your country 🖨️ Your printer setup ✅ Does your slicer and printer support ironing reliably? Yes or No 📦 Do you have experience fulfilling orders and shipping to customers 🚀 VIP / Premium members get priority but everyone can apply. Let's build something global together. 👇🏼
1 like • 2d
United States (Midwest) 3 Bambu Lab P2S, Bambu lab H2C Ironing is setup And shipping is easy.
X2D hype, revolution or old technology?!
Good morning, I let myself be caught up in the hype and ordered the X2D yesterday, the basic idea was: P2S is one nozzle too little for me because I print a lot with support and for the H2C the budget is simply not enough. Now I've literally panicked because of the Bowden extruder and it took the joy away from me a bit... I'm worried that I'm now getting overpriced old technology into the house. Quasi a P2S with the smear not to be able to use the entire construction space because of the two nozzles... What do you think? - Just look forward to my first big, closed printer? I look forward to your feedback 🫶🏻☺️
X2D hype, revolution or old technology?!
0 likes • 2d
Your best bet is finding a low hour p2s, which is flooded in the market right. Can get one for 400 which is insane deal.
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1 like • 6d
Would like to know more about maximizing profits. Like where to source filament for bulk.
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