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Hi All, Our science department is about to purchase 3-D printers and was wondering if any one had recommendations or suggestions. We are currently looking at Makerbot.

What you going to use it for?

We had two 3-D printers, but they have just been reassigned to the library.
They weren't being used in science, they do take a long time to produce a figure, so it's not practical to attempt a class set of any figures.
I don't recall what brands they were though.

We have a 3d printer in the library, I'm pretty sure that it is a Makerbot. So far it is working out OK.

aldi has some 3D printers at the moment for sale, don't know the quality though

Thank you. The printers are predominantly for use in i-STEM, which is now falling into our Science faculty. This year the students did light seeking robots, solar cars and a range of projects with the Arduino's and raspberry pi's. From memory the printers were going to be used to custom make parts. Money is still in the budget from last year and no one has been able to decide on which one to use.