What other aspects of our business would you like to see more? We're really trying to make more than just blaster reviews, so let us know in the comments below! P.S. This was a much more involved video than usual. Thanks for your patience as we got this one published. - Perry

I'm not into nerf guns by any means, but as an outsider to this hobby who's interested in running 3d printers commercially this video is priceless. I can see why you are successful. Thanks for the genuine and realistic information.

At 13:41 he says its a pricy printer but I find it really justifiable as an engineering student who wants to use the printer as a tool, rather than make working with the printer a project in and of itself. I have nearly 6000 hours on the printer and it really is a reliable tool, as long as you take care of it and service it. Thanks for the review and if anyone is on the fence with this and a cheaper version but can stretch their budget, trust me its worth your money. Also definitely get the kit, knowing every part in and out will make replacement and troubleshooting a breeze armed with the knowledge of the intricacies of the printer

I would be interested in a Prusa Mini review aswell. To see how I can improve mine. Thanks!

Great review! Love it!

Prusas really are great for when you want to have a printer with minimal issues, and upkeeping. not to mention they have great warranty and support if something goes wrong I got one earlier this year, and I don't regret it at all.

I probably won't be getting a printer soon, but this review was interesting non-the-less Luke! It's crazy that you have what is probably the 2nd biggest Prusa farm, and it all started with "this guy" tinkering with blasters in his garage! This channel has come so far, I can't believe that I'm looking at $120,000+ worth of Prusa printers!

Great honest review! Plus it’s nice to have a pre-calibrated printer to start with when time is money, like it is for you. How about a maintenance video? How you lubricate, clean, etc.

You know, I didn’t even realize that a 3D printing technician is an actual job job. I’ve been building and fixing prusa printers since I was a freshman in high school and now I’m going into my sophomore year of college (manufacturing engineering technology). I love what y’all are doing seems like an awesome job!!

I would definitely want to see more 3d printing content from Out of Darts. While you guys are primarily a Nurf-modder, the experience of running a print farm at your scale is something most 3d printing enthusiast don't have and I believe that makes you guys one of the most knowledgeable on this subject. So, please do share more!

Congratulations on 100,000 subs!

This was a phenomenal review that covered literally everything I was wondering (reliability, print quality, service and support, Mini vs. 3S+, etc.) Thanks for taking the time to make this. I'll think I'll be replacing my CReality for a 3S+ as I'm tired of the reliability issues.

I mostly watch your videos for technical stuff about 3-D printing as well as your product design process. I am just in love with the fact that 3-D printing allows you to think something up and hold it in your hand a short time later. I run a small print farm of a dozen MK3S units and I have also run them 24/7 for nearly a year and a half and I can echo your findings: only minor issues over that time so far. I keep thinking I’d like a larger printer, but I am hesitant to buy something that is not made by Prusa… anyway, thank you for such great videos! I hope to be like you someday when I grow up 😀

As a guy that has worked with support for over 15 years, these simple questions that they ask on your initial support contact with them is crucial for their own sake. They have no means of knowing if you're a superuser or an average pleb. It kinds of eliminates things they have to ask you in order for them to really understand your core issue. 90% of all customers that I have been in contact with have had trouble explaining their problems to me properly over the phone, so that's why I (or them - Prusa support) have to take control and ask the customer a certain amount of fixed questions to narrow it down.

This was an amazing review. It’s amazing how you managed to build the business from 0 to what it is now in only 7 years! Good for you! Also thanks for the 3D printing farm knowledge. Really helps out aspiring makers. Can’t wait for the Mini+ review!

Great video, Luke. Shout-out to you from your friends down in Cali.

This is an old vid now but thanks for a fantastic real world review. You have given me all the info I need and I'm about to pull the trigger. Cheers from Downunder

can't wait to see your review on the mini, I have the MK3S+ and like it. I knew it was great printer and I remember seen on your IG a picture of the numbers of print days one had. I was sold.

Awesome video! Just got my first printer and it happens to be this model. Scored it from a neighbor for $200 US. Happy to see I got a good deal!

I just bought a prusa and the reputation that follows them for reliability is exactly what you get. Anywhere from assembly to slicing to printing it’s fantastic. Makes 3D printing accessible and less intimidating to starters. I don’t even tune slicer profiles i just use generic pla and it literally prints anything you throw at it. I am in love with the printer. I got a ender 3 first which I’m happy I did cause that’s how I got my know how of printing.

Just assembled my first Prusa MK3 with the dream of owning a farm. Thank you for these videos and hopefully blazing the path for future 3d printing farm businesses. Learned a lot from this video alone.

I'm so late to this video! Love these insight videos. Some of your earlier ones are one of the main, if not THE main reason I went with a Prusa Mini. Having gotten my feet wet on an Ender (and its many headaches) your video pushed me to Prusa. No regrets. I'm on my third Mini with plans to get more as my start-up grows! Thanks so much!!

Keep it going!!!! Your business is an inspiration. I’m up 11 prusa printers in my my print farm making pendants and jewelry weigh them.

Thank you for this great video - it has very useful information backed by your experience!

Nice review. Love seeing your perspective vs a fan page or simple tech reviewer that isn't really putting these machines through their paces. To that end I'd love to see that follow up video on the Prusa mini. I see it's been a while now and perhaps that video was scrapped entirely but I'm curious to hear what you did or didn't like. I read that they had some initial problems but they seem to have ironed those out so would love your thoughts there. Thanks and love the channel!

I’m not into nerf guns, so the whole reason I’m subbed is to see the annual shop tour and videos like this. 👍

I got an i3 MK3S+ on Feb as my first printer after researching on what would be what I was looking for and I am happy with it. You’re not kidding on the building, i had spent 6+ hours putting my together but had no issues with my tests or any prints that weren’t user error from the learning curve. I’ve printed so far a Caliburn, RivalburnV3, YEHW and a Gecko. It’s also made me go an experiment with Shapr3D on the iPad Pro and have made some stuff for a board/card game and other stuff.

I 100% agree with the rating. I have 2 MK3Ss and they are amazing.

Looking forward to the review of the Mini, and hopefully hearing you say "The Prusa Mini is fine for home printing but doesn't hold up in farms" because this video came up as my brand new Mini was doing it's first print. 😅

Have been running an FF Adventurer 3 for the past 4 months and I love it to death but it doesn't have the print bed size I need. Looked at the Creatily printers and they seems to be more work than fun. You pushed me over the edge to finally pull the trigger and get a Prusa Mk3... I can't wait till it shows up and I can run more prints simultaneously. Thanks!

I was really confused for a moment... one million hours is close to a 115 years. For a split second, I was trying to do the math to figure out how long Prusa's been around.

Hi, thank you for putting this review together! Based on this video I have purchased my first Prusa i3 kit. I have been using 3D printers from the first Makerbot but lost my Ultimaker in July. Been looking for an alternative and this looks to be the one. Sorry I didn't use your affiliate link!! Hope others who purchase a Prusa remember to click your link. However, heading over to your website to buy Nerf stuff for my nephew. Thanks again.

It’s funny you should mention stepper motors as a lifetime part. I actually had to replace an extruder stepper motor a week ago due to a failed bearing inside it. I’ve ordered new bearings and will be rebuilding it so I have a spare if it should happen again. My Mk3s has 342 print days and 48,000 Meters of filament, so I’m not complaining too loudly.

Great Video Guys!

Great video checking reviews before I order one. First review and I am sold, PRUSA + it is.

Do you have a reward for the one printer in your farm, that’s running the longest without issues? That would be nice ^^

Thanks for the great video!

Priceless information. I really appreciated the time you took to make this video. If only Prusa's lead times were shorter, I would have gone with Prusa for my print farm instead of MatterHackers Pulse HV. I'm printing ASA though in heated enclosures at 50°C active heating. As a mechanical engineering student and a new small business owner, I can say printers like the MKS3+ are what I'm looking for. I just wish I could get two printers faster than 6 weeks lead time. Your video is inspirational to me, thank you again for sharing this information.

I had been looking at getting into 3D printers and, as one would expect, I was looking more at Ender or maybe FlashForge mostly due to initial cost. My birthday came along last month and I was very surprised to receive a Prusa Mk3+ from my wife. I have been using it almost daily for 3 weeks now and it has been flawless (except for dealing with a roll of crappy filament but that was not the machine's fault). Obviously, I could not agree more with your review.

Hope to see the prusa mini plus review! I really like the size and more affordable than the mk3s but want to see your review before biting the bullet. I don’t plan to use it as a printer farm, but am concerned about what criticisms you may have for it. Would be nice to get a preview if I can ;)

My brother in law has two Prusa's, he loves them... I also just realized I live down the street from Prusa here in Prague.

Great review from a practical perspective! Prusa is definitely a quality enterprise, really pays attention to detail, and is super supportive of the open source model. I can only hope that one day I may reach their level of quality in my own 3D printing-related engineering endeavors. I look forward to the Mini review when I will be sure to take lots of notes on the difference between a good printer and a great one.

Damn. This video was like a documentary. Nicely done.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience.

Hi Luke, your videos continue to inform and inspire, thanks. I would love to see a video that looks at how you project the print cost of an item when designing and if there are any minimum standards you use to assess whether there is sufficient value in an item to validate printing.

Nice review, great to hear your perspective.

As a smaller user, I run the repair shop for a nerf and laser tag arena, this is extremely helpful review. I have an old ender 3 pro and prusa i3 mark 3, both are good but the the prusa has been more reliable. I would love to hear your thoughts on how to scale the farm. And set up for starting a small blaster shop.

I started with a mk2 8 years ago and updated to the 2.5 a few years ago, just ordered a MK3. The 2.5 was getting too many failures because it just wore out from too many prints. Larry

Excellent review, like all of your videos. I too would welcome a review of the Prusa Mini printer. Hearing a review from a experienced user is in my opinion best way to evaluate a product. Thank you for all you do for the hobby, I can't wait to watch your next video.

Great info. Thanks!

When is the Mini review coming? =) I'd love your input. I've just ordered the Mini to learn about printing until the MK4 releases as I'm hoping that to be a great startup printer. I have a dream of running a printshop with my kids, but I'm back at where you were 7 years ago. Great vid btw!

I agree about the support… sometimes less then ideal answers but better than nothing. And have high hopes it keeps improving

Looking forward to Prusa Mini review. Curious as to why they didn't work out for you?

Hey, I would gladly take those Prusa Minis of you!

Hey it’s funny I have the same setup! Would love to show some pics, when I stumbled on your video I was like “hell yeah PRUSA, they served me well too”

a huge thing about printer level 2 support is, if something is occurring super weird it is probably the first time is it happening and L1 support may generally resolve the 25 people that was having different weirdness so when support gets to you try rebooting . the boxes got to be checked all tier one MUST be done. cannot tell you how many times ive had advance level diagnosed an issue only to find it unplugged or a breaker tripped, there is only so much you can ask someone to do while doing phone or email support.

I am about to buy an used one from facebook marketplace for 550$ USD. It is nice to hear about their reliability as it has been used for a year and a half. Considered the buying a new cheaper Prusa 'clone' like the Sovol sv06 plus or neptune 4 plus. I'll miss the bigger print area sadly. But if an used printer has less issues than a new one...

Unfortunately this has nothing to do with a review on Prusia and how well they work. It is a great review how this person has maintained his business.

Really good knowledge on Prusa and cracking review. Love the idea of a print farm but I think I would have a constant headache!

Love this! I’;m looking to get a printer and came here cos nerf related! Need to know if my designs will fit on this printer! Can’t wait to get into this!

If you're running a 3d printing business and making money on 3d printed parts. A prusa mk3, or really any prusa is the only way to go imo. Proven reliability and quality prints out of the box. Many run print farms with cheapo ender 3's and wonder why every month, they're having printer problems, replacing parts or failed prints.

I wanted a 3D Printer So bad because I wanted to make a lot of creative blasters with creative designs, creative mechanics and tacticool attachments.

Thanks for your very interesting video. It provided a lot of awesome insights into 3D printing at a commercial level. And I got some useful takeaways. As far as I understand the Prusa Mini(+) is a decent device with excellent print quality, but does not rock in a commercial production environment. I am owner of a Mini and very happy with the results. So, I believe, it is a good choice for makers I am looking forward to watching an episode that addresses the Prusa Mini from your experiences.

I have found with Prusa support it will all depend on when you try to use it. Their plus is that they tend to have someone always on so they have someone in all areas around the world so they are contracted instead of an actual Prusa employee. I tend to get the better support knowledge when I'm chatting with support while Prusa would be open.

Would love to see you do the mini review, I have two minis I use for my side hustle and would like to hear your feedback. Might help me with some preventable issues.

I long for the prusa mini review. I am about to invest in a print farm and the mini looks great so I am looking forward to seeing if your issues would be enough for me to get mk3s instead

Haha, I was waiting for a mention of your dislike of the Prusa Mini. Apparently, there's a few hobbists that don't like it

Man if only you were close to me, this would be an amazing place to work.

ZYLTECH IS AWESOME.....I've printed more than 50 spools in 3yrs and NEVER had a bad spool. I have a Prusa mnk3 and use Prusa Slicer.....standard Prusa Slicer settings work Perfect.

Do you think the ultra “pinpoint” darts from the new ultra select will make some blasters more viable?

This is great! If you’ve worked with a Creality CR-6 SE, how does it compare? Also, I would love to see a Worker Swift review!! You’re one of my favorite channels to watch for new and upcoming blasters!

Excellent review, interested in the Prusa Mini review.

I know this is an old video but I'd love to know how you guys minimise risk of, monitor for and plan to respond to a printer going on fire. This is a rare event but if it will happen anywhere you guys would be most likely so I'm sure many people would be interested in how you plan for it.

Great videos, thank you. Am interested in learning about your insights in building a profitable and growing business? Also at some point, doesn't injection mold scale production make more sense?

I think I have a larger Pursa Mk3s print farm sorry. I have 101 Mk3s printers in my print farm in Australia. I saw your setup on KZfaq a while ago and that gave me the motivation I needed to create my farm. Great work and cool setup.

Great review! Are you having any issues with linear bearings and rods constantly wearing out? I'm also running a small Prusa farm for my business, and I found it the biggest problem with Prusa. I have to pack bearings with oil every 100 hours or so...

Great video, although EnderToysTerrain I believe has a larger prusa print farm in Las Vegas 😉 ..

My first printer was a Wanhao Duplicator I3 v2, and it was an absolute nightmare. Constant QC issues, failing parts; just terrible. Ended up returning it and getting a Prusa i3 Mk3, and it's easily my favorite printer of all time, and it's features (filament sensor, flex build-sheets, auto-leveling, etc.) have just spoiled the hell out of me. I've also got an Ender 3 that I pretty much avoid unless I need to run multiple prints because it's just that much more of a pain to print on with much worse returns.

Very nice review from a heavy user`s point of view, interesting. I bet you have learned a lot of nice tips and dirty little tricks :-), some short videos about them would be nice.

Love the review. Reason I just bought and put together my MKS3+ :) I also live in Vancouver WA, and am thinking about switching to ProtoPasta for the reasons you mentioned as well, just on a much smaller scale. Would it be possible to get your settings you use for that filament?

After buying and loving the Mini, I’m waiting for the Mark 3 to have the same updated screen and buddy board.

so after spending more money on a CR-10s Pro V2 then a prusa MK3 and still not willing to trust it to print over night and not burn my house down... your video just sealed the deal for prusa... im tired of constantly fixing something when i need to be learning how to use blender or some other design software... its just not conducive to trying to start a business and always tinkering with your equipment rather then designing your product...

1 million hours are 114 Years. I asked Alexa Show(8). never the less... I am going to like this Printer. I did not buy one yet but i am thinking about it.

the best printer hands down! i have 2 mk3s!! I WANT A BIG ONE!!!

Love the videos and the shop tours. I run a much smaller but similar shop making mods for video game items. We also started with S3D and switched to Prusaslicer but ultimately went back to S3D. We had a hard time getting the same quality at the same speeds as we got with S3D. Any chance you'll do a video showing off some of your slicer settings?

Agree completely Bang for buck and reliability, the I3 Mks3 is the best of th ebest, I bought mine pre assembled two years ago after cr10 and others, it stil is my go to printer for stuff that fits on that build plattform its not cheap , but you know what you will get. and compared to the 2000$ +++ printers performs very well and reliable. would buy anytime if I would have the need for one.

Did you upgrade your your older models from mk3 to mk3s to mk3s+? Thx for the great video.

I saw that you run PLA. Any complaints from the PLA deforming or breaking down over time?

How's the print speed and quality compared to the Mini? I have the Mini and it works without any issues (I'm not using it that intensively), and I actually don't really need a new/second printer, but the larger bed size would be helpful for some projects, plus double the printers means double the design iteration speed in theory. While I find the Voron models interesting too I don't think I'd enjoy putting those together with my current (lack of) knowledge - the Prusas are nice because they don't turn into projects themselves and I want to keep it that way.

Thanks for the helpful video! I have the opportunity to buy this 3D printer for $650 used for 2 years and assembled or brand new for $850 not assembled. Which would you recommend buying?

Thanks for the Excellent video, have you tried the Pulse XE - NylonX Advanced Materials...3D printer?

I would love to have in my hands those NOTION logs

what would you recommend a new beginner to buy the Prusa mini and learn on that scale to begin with? or jump right away to the Prusa i3 MK3 ? thanks for your feedback

ouch 41 minis.... Would love to see if you beta a XL and your experience with it.

I do agree with your Mini statement, We got one and we keep going back to the MK3. What do you do to keep the PLA to stick to the bed? We do not have an issue when it is down, it is getting it down at the beginning is what is causing us the issue. The first second the extruder starts to push the filament out it kinda pig tails instead of staying on the bed. I know you mentioned you do 220/67 so maybe that is it as we only do 215/60 so maybe the slightly hotter bed will help it stick. We have been using glue sticks and that has solved our issue, but if we can just us clean build sheets then it would drop the cost of needing glue sticks.

100k sub cool

Great video, thanks. Interesting business as well :)

Great vid…I use Cura for my build settings etc. I tend to use 50/60 speed for the initial base and then up the speeds for the outer/inner walls etc, my question is what speed do I actually set on the printer at the start of my print? Because it starts off printing at 100 and I need to turn the knob down to 50/60 for my initial layer speed and then crank up the knob when this base has laid. Why doesn’t the Prusa automatically adjust to the speed settings I’ve created in Cura?

Any tips for printing cages? Specifically the supports for cages? There always seems to be some left over support material that is difficult to clean and ends up pushing my motors slightly out of true.

So when are you and Joe going to team up and start PRUSA USA? I think a lot more people would buy it in the US if shipping time and cost were reduced by having a second headquarters in the US.