I think the biggest missing component in all this discussion was bed size. I think that is an important metric as I see it constantly being brought up in various forums as a request to go bigger, but also a fair number saying that small suits their needs just fine. I would love to see what the actual breakdown is overlaid with the type of prints that people are doing.

I wish there was a size category so we could see how many people really want a large format printer and ideal sizes

“Don’t want to be conned by something that over-promises and under-delivers.” Perfectly sums up my preferences. Thank you for doing this! I hope manufacturers listen! Please make something that just works!

Good to see that a segment of 3d printing enthusiasts still care about open source. It’s been a big part of why I started doing it and what I enjoy about it.

I think my biggest thing has been reliability. I haven't printed anything since December when I made glow in the dark dragons for my nieces and nephews. Since then my Bambu X1c has been sitting on the shelf turned off. Today I wanted to print a charging stand for my Pixel Watch. I downloaded a STL, turned my printer on, sent the print, and it printed no problem, even after 4-5 months of no use. If i were to try that on my old Ender 3 or CR6, it would take an hour+ of recalibrating to get everything to work right.

I really like this kind of community feedback, but i would love if you contacted some other channels for your next one and made them too share the survey. That way you both get more responses and feedback from a broader audience.

I thought of one today. A spool holder that contains a scale. So you can determine if there is enough filament on a spool to complete a print.

My X1 Carbon is my fifth FDM printer...I'm "past" wanting to tinker with hardware, and I just want it to work. The X1 is my best printer so far.

I appreciate reliability and ease of use. After living with the original Ender 3 for two years, I got a Qidi Q1 Pro a week ago and I feel like I have gone from the horse and buggy to the space age. Auto bed leveling is the one feature I appreciate the most. I finally got the moon lamp to complete without falling off the bed like it did in the bed slinger after 18 hours. We spend $2k to $3k for CAD capable laptops to design with, a similar price for fast, reliable and easy to use FDM printers isn't out of bounds as far as I am concerned. My time is valuable and spending it adjusting bed leveling knobs is a waste. When I first started in this I didn't mind but somewhere along the way I just wanted the thing to print as I want to spend my time designing, not babysitting a cheap entry level printer.

The email from Dr. Tao is pretty great. We live in a context where the Bambu Lab machines have been very well received, but they were still in R&D when the last video came out. I think it was a pretty big gamble to put out a premium-priced machine aimed primarily at consumers. But I'm mostly impressed with the email's candour, you don't often get genuine responses from CEO types, so that's cool to see. I hope more manufacturers take note of the actual lesson here, listening to consumers and enthusiasts in the community can be a great way of learning what risks to take, and what people value. Don't just copy what's working. It would be really cool to see another version of the video that collaborates with more creators to build on the survey (including things like; purchasing demographic information, regional information, interest in industrial technologies like SLS etc.), and increase the reach to an even larger audience! Everyone puts out their survey introduction video, and they all link to one central survey with an open-source dataset. It's kind of doing the leg work for manufacturers, but that feels aligned with the spirit of this community.

I hope all the 3D printer companies pay serious attention to this video. Thank you for collecting and showing this data! It is amazingly valuable to the future of what printers should focus on doing. You and Stephan are doing some of the most valuable printing videos. You are saving thousands of people having to figure out all this stuff on their own.

It's not a comment to the next gen 3d printer, but I would like to see progress in the plastic recycling side. I see some youtubers that have created their own printer shredder / extruder setups, but they are certainly finicky, and I don't expect youtubers will provide customer support if viewers try to copy them. I've seen one or two systems commercially available, but they are several thousands of dollars. A recycling setup on the order of price and consistency of the now-common desktop 3d printer is my want.

Your printer suggestion is a very close description of the Ratrig V-core 4 if it came pre assembled

Quick thought: Sovol has been blowing me away recently. My SV06 and SV06+ are my workhorses, and I'm VERY excited for the SV-08

You know what I really wouldn't mind? A 3d printer that supports multi-material/color but only holds like two spools. I like the implementation of the new prusa xl, but I don't like the price tag or need 5 tool heads.

Please do one of these videos for the model hosting websites. I think just about every single one stands in need of some major improvements for model discovery and usability that would not be hard to add. And make the search features better.

The results of your survey and your conclusion are 100% in line with my perception and wishes. Thank you for the research.

As I notice more and more trend towards printed images (hueforge, signs), I could imagine that there is a market for printers with a large print area, but not necessarily a large height. You could then hang it on the wall to minimize the space required. And of course it should be able to do multicolor with at least 6 colors and more

Filament waste/reuse/recycling is my biggest concern long term as a hobbyist.

Well prepared and excellent video! I'm missing the form factor in the research, like: 1. What's the average size of your prints? 2. Do you print multiple pieces in one go? (so, do you need a large bed?) 3. What's the max height of your prints?

Great video. One thing I prefer in printers is easy repairability/maintenance. I feel like some of the newer hobbyist machines are leaning more towards closed-source parts and making it hard to repair and troubleshoot issues as a user.

I just purchased a Bambu X-1 Carbon to replace an extensively modified Ender 3 Pro. I am blown away at the printed quality difference and the speed. So far it has been everything I could ask for. The walled garden is disappointing but realistically hasn’t been a problem.

I don’t like how manufacturers are shifting to proprietary extruders and hotends. Nozzle technology has been one of the best pathways for improvement, and they are taking a huge step back in that regard now. What I would like to see is a return to and expansion on partnerships between printer manufacturers and specialty parts manufacturers like E3D, Bondtech, Slice, etc. Bondtech and Slice have partnered up for upgrade kits to common printers. I would like to see those available from the start. Just like cars have trim level packages, printers could have the same with a base level package or with aftermarket type upgrades pre-installed and firmware optimized from the factory.

A couple thoughts I had… First, as an alternative to non planar printing for those who only care about surface finish, non planar ironing. The nozzle would pause printing at certain layers, go back and iron and then continue on or even be replaced with a separate special nozzle made for the purpose. The slicer would need to slice in a way that it left enough material to iron. The next thought is focusing on at least 2 head/nozzle printers. This would for many benefits including faster material/color changes, since one could be printing while the other is changing filaments. I think this should do for now. (I’m also always a fan of closed loop motor control)

A clarification I failed to make when filling the survey: I want 3d printing to be my hobby, not 3d printers.

@10:52 we emphatically agree 👍

i have an idea for multi-color waste. what about printing lines on the print bed instead of blocks, so that you can feed the lines into the hotend and make a makeshift normal sized string of filiment through special printer settings. that way consumers dont have to buy an expensive spool maker that they might only use once. maybe another nozzle or special feeding system that swaps out with the normal print head?

An excellent survey and very well put together and summarised. Thank you for sharing.

One thing which is difficult to address in these kinds of surveys is that you are asking the people who are already into the hobby what they want. When it comes to a company they will always be wanting to look to expand into new customers and they won’t always get that from the existing customer base. I think Bambu got lucky where they gave existing customers what they wanted but also enabled newer customers in the space due to the “it just works” mentality. So I think unfortunately for those manufacturers who want to get more mass market share, these suggestions are not necessarily as helpful as the ones 3 years ago.

Fascinating! Thanks, Michael! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

My impression of the printer you proposed at the end is that Rat Rig V-Core 4 is hitting a lot of those targets. I have my V-Core 3 500 running nicely so I am not likely to buy the 4 any time soon but I am intrigued by the option of making it an IDEX without any changes to its main frame and most of its parts.

Great surveys! I always love your videos! 😃

I think another conversation that should be had is filament manufacturing and standard spool sizes or maybe an entire move away from extruded filament and towards plastic pellets. (Saw a project recently that experimented with this)

14:37 Wall mount is indeed great. I built one with a SCARA arm and fold-out bed, so when not in use it only protrudes a few inches from the wall. Very convenient since I don't use it very often. The "frame" is just a 2x4 with two SBR12 rails screwed to it, one of which also serves as the arm's shoulder axis.

Great comprehensive video. You really covered all the bases with this one. There were several points I definitely agree with.

Although I wasn't able to participate in the survey, I agreed with most of the opinions, and fell into most of the larger groups. I would add, don't overlook the market share of users that would be interested in an affordable way to reuse failed or prototype prints, whether through filament recycling (home extrusions) or pellet extrusion systems (from recycling to extruding). If it were in the $300 to $500 range for a full print bed to extrusion system (think completed print to recycled filament being reused), I think it would be a game changer for the industry.

Thank you for doing this! User experience research is an under appreciated/expensive task. And here you hand it to the manufacturers on a silver platter.

Very interesting and timely subject. I've been in the business for 4 years, exclusively as a non-profit hobbyist. Initially with QIDI X-Plus and Artillery Sidewinder X1, now with BambuLab P1S, BambuLab A1 and Elegoo Neptune 3 Max. I am happily retired, I enjoy it a lot, I found myself in 3D printing at the time of the pandemic, very happy with it all. Aspects that I consider most when it comes to improving efficiency: 1 RFID as standard for filaments. I've been thinking about this forever. It's about creating the standard, or even following one that already exists, like USB-C, and opening it to all manufacturers. Consumers are grateful 2 super reinforced Nozzles, with diameter adjustment via software. It will be a very welcome game changer 3 beds with standardized dimensions. Pre-defined measurements for different printer categories 4 Unified voltage for all equipment in 110/220. The whole world will thank you I'll stay here. Congratulations on the channel, and continue with success.

Dang, i missed the survey. I got my start with a creality Ender-3 v2 and tackled most of the fundamentals of 3d printing. After about 10 months i bought a Creality K1 (post extruder fix) and have absolutly fallen in love with it. I am a Creality fan mostly for their price point. i'm a tinkerer and am willing to spend extra time to thoroughly understand something. The latest project i just completed was building a CNC frame for the 5w laser module i got thats meant for my Ender (i didnt like not being able to print). If other manufacturers could bring their prices down just a hair to make them more accessible to lower income hobbyists like myself. Anything decent over $1000 is really out of the realm for me and i'm sure many others. Great video as always! 🖖🤙

Wow, your printer suggestion is really close to a RatRig V-Core 4, the price is the only thing is not aligned, but that RatRig V-Core is a big boy! Happy 3d printing!

Really great content as always Michael. I feel like some of this info was pretty obvious, but you touched on some really interesting results that I was pretty surprised about too. Hopefully this will have another positive impact moving forward as I was one of those people that wanted something just a little more expensive if it meant I could get really good results straight out of the box.

Love that top you're wearing. RIP.

There's a guy, Greenboy, who's supposedly working on a relatively medium-to-low-cost pellet hotend/extruder system that could be used as a drop-in replacement for a filament hotend/extruder system. From his videos, I don't know how reproducible his current methods are as of yet since I gather the parts look like they might still be custom made (that screw in particular doesn't look off-the-shelf), but using pellet-sized plastic materials instead of filament is certainly one way to recycle failed prints.

@teachingTech I used to be an engineer at Apple back when their computers were expandable and upgradeable. One thing we found was that on surveys respondents frequently said they wanted expandability and upgradability BUT when it actually came to spending dollars people never spent the money. Upgradeable CPUs was a biggie. It took a lot to designed daughter cards for the pre G3 machines but no one every upgraded. It's easy to check that you want "upgradeability" on a web form but it people don't buy it then manufacturers spent a bunch of resources on something that isn't going to be used. So manufacturers be sure to listen to history. It would be interesting to see how many people buy a Bamboo AMS after they've purchased the machine vs people who buy it with the machine. The A1 would be interesting to since it's a lot less expensive.

WoW, the entire show pretty much was 100% the same feeling here about 3d printing. Nicely done there !

I like the idea of printers that are treated like cars. You can buy the very basic "stock" car and upgrade it with manufactured designed components that doesn't require us to toss huge chunk of the stock printer. A stock printer could just be similar to what's on the market today. Except, those stock printers are already prepared to accept upgrades. For example. Let's say the stock printer doesn't come with component for bed leveling, but it does have the features on it so we can just attach it later. Right now, how it is, you have to buy or print a completely new extruder assembly just to add bed-leveling to it. That makes the upgrades more expensive because you have to buy. We just need a strong stock model available with ready-upgradeablility already built on to it. Also, US$500 printer may be ok for many in first world countries, but us in the global majority can't easily afford that much at one time. However, a US$200 stock printer will allow us to purchase upgrades as we're able to afford them. I notice that components for 3D printers are getting very expensive these days.

Always look forward to your videos.

Oh wow, a follow up to one of the first videos about 3d printing I've ever seen. Now in the market for an upgrade... Thank you so much for these, great stuff.

Multi filament core xy should be the norm but for the slicer I choose creality print with tinkercad function. Most individuals do not have big spaces for big bed printers. So the best option is slicing but with options to drill 2 or 3 mm into the models so we can put dowels or magnets inside so it will hold stronger

thanks for making this, cant wait to see what they come out with next

Nice jacket! Worth a pole position!

I missed the survey but I had a thought about something I would love to see. How about a color changing system that only uses one filament. Have a way to inject and mix color dyes with an uncolored or white filament inside of the extruder? If a good quality mix could be accomplished before the plastic is extruded, I don't see why we can't get any color desired out of a printer by varying the ratio of the RGB dyes that are injected.

very good input!

Please remember that people’s answers to surveys like this are often more aspirational than representative. Customer input can be useful, but it’s important to understand its limitations. The Pontiac Aztec was a good example of relying too heavily on customer input.

Glad pellet extruder is mentioned. It will be essential for my next printer. I wait till I can get it.

I just bought a printer that closely matches your video wrap up. It ticks every box except dual extruder heads. It's the Qidi X Plus 3. I prefer the medium to large format printers.

I did not complete the survey but agree with many of the responses. I love that my Qidi Tech X-Plus 3 is NOT connected to the cloud. I just send a sliced file to the printer on my local network. I wanted a WiFi capable printer, but not one which required the cloud. I purchased this machine for the CoreXY design and faster speed than my Creality CR10S which by now seems very slow - reliable but slow.

6:58 I think the cloud preference has heavily to do with WHO is offering the cloud service and how it's implemented. I dont know a single Apple user who is not using ICloud and rarely do I encounter someone who does not use their google Drive or Onedrive to sync their computers via the cloud. But on the same note if creality tries to sell me their underdeveloped, featureless cloud service (which also probably spies on me more than other services) - then of course im all against it and wont use it. Bambus services are at least well integrated with their ecosystem and work. An they are a Chinese company aswell. But their product just works and delivers on their promises big difference in products and trustworthiness

Fun to see the results, thanks for putting effort in this survey. I’m old fashioned now I guess… still have my ender3, modded and tweaked, and it is slow. But it works fantasticly and still prints good.

How about a slicer that adds connection hard points. Slot connections, screw holes, even just solid blocks. Even line up marks would be useful. Intelligent slicer software that can at least suggest cut lines, and orientation of prints to minimize the need for supports. An example would be a life size foot. Oriented sole down the arch would need support, and nearly the whole inside would be filled to support the upper. If it was cut where the leg connects, and oriented toes up no support would be needed except for the toes which can be another part pointing up. The heel can be printed with minimal support under the sole with the interior hollow. Another example would be torso. Legs are cylinders, no support. Crotch of pelvis, printed upside down, minimum support inside. Crotch to bust. Cylinder, no supports. Under boob to under nipple, minimal support. Under nipple to lower shoulders. Cylinder, no support. Shoulders minimal support. Except for the sole of the heel, and under boob all the supports are inside the print. Infill should be customizable to a thickening of the print walls for strength like a cardboard box not just infill the whole print. We should be wary of cheat pricing. That's cheap printer expensive, non refillable ink cartridges. The openings for cheat pricing with 3d printers is software that wastes filament, over priced software, and files, software that demands personal information it can sell. Updates that are down grades. Updates that are incompatible with anything you already bought.

I am mostly looking forward to miniature pellet extruders, as it allows for more interesting material choices. Mostly for printing truly flexible materials that are very low on the durometer scale!

Tilting print bed: some vorons with 4 Z motors could do that if the bed mounts are designed to accomodate the tilt.

Awesome video! Great data for manufacturers to look at.

I think 3D printing companies are probably more interested in pulling someone into this topic by selling them their first printer rather than selling some tinkerer a kit, especially if that kit pulls the rug out from under it's successor by being upgradeable. But selling to new customers requires basically the opposite of what the survey demands, so they will probably build Apple-style products that cost a ton of money, just "magically" work and require as little user interaction as possible. I wouldn't be surprised if they started enclosing filament spools in a cartridge to prevent tangles, sold you an IPA cleaning cartridge for the bed or made you replace the printer once the scrap bin was full. The only way to avoid this future is probably to keep 3D printing in a niche and out of the hands of the masses -Which might happen, because I doubt there's a need for a 3D printer in every home. But who knows, there's a surprising need for a computer in every home as well, after all ;-)

Crazy printer idea: secondary/vernier xy axes actuated with voice coils. You could use it to apply heavy input shaping to main xy and catch square corners with the small light weight secondary axes that could accel way quicker. This could make large format printers much faster.

I want a Bambu toolchanger with an AMS connected to each toolhead. 16 colors printing, minimal waste and zero waste if you keep it at one color per tool

Speed is important, but precision is MOST CRUCIAL, especially when prototyping.

Thanks for doing this survey. I"m sure it's valuable to those contemplating future product developments. As part of the expandability aspect, you could take that further in a more generalized sustainability. If there were some common mechanical component that were modular and reusable, upgrades could could cheaper and more likely to be adopted. I'm thinking of mechanical components like frames and enclosures. Or maybe some standard interfaces for toolheads and hot-ends that can be swapped out. Maybe turn your 3D printer into a laser engraver, purchased from a third party? Or a 3D scanner "tool" you could swap into your precision motion system? Might not be time yet for something like that, but a first step could be this level of upgrades from within a particular vendor? I moved from an Ender 3 "Pro" to a Voron 2.4. The change from "3D printing as a hobby" to "3D printer as a tool" really was quite profound. It was a nice transition, even after then enjoyable (to me) assembly process that resulted in a pretty reliable tool. I got to thinking about it very differently, and it surprised me. I wonder what other changes will have profound impacts on how people think about these tools?

One other thing I think would be interesting to see is a better way to handle large projects in slicers (ones that use multiple full build plates). Some parts require different parameters (other than the settings you can add to the parts individually) such as filament type, filament color, layer height, etc. My thoughts would be you could specify those parameters for each part (or multiple parts at a time) to begin with. Then when you auto arrange parts, they would be grouped together by layer height (or support different layer heights in the same print, preferably both), by filament color, filament type, etc. Then to take it a step further, have a belt printer and have the ability to auto dump parts and start the next program and change out filaments (if you have a mmu or ams) and just general features to make printing large complicated projects easier.

In in Australia and I own a 30 printer printing farm. Loved this video but there is something that I feel is completely missed. Power... if a bambu came in a 350w varient id be sold. I have k1c as well as bambu and elegoo neptune 3 pros. My priorities are 1. Quality. 2. Power. 3. Speed. 4. Bed size. Enough isn't spoken about power, both in terms of how much they draw, at what points they draw it eg a bambu p1s vs a k1c, purely in terms of power. Id love to see that article. How many printers can you fit safely to a house? Also, the new creality 3 v3 plus may just got this role if the quality is there. 300mm x 300mm bed, 600mm/s speed and 350 watt power? Yes please...

I would also like to see a camera attachment to the print head and a dedicated print path and the software that would stitch all the pictures together for a good cheap 3d scan of an object on the print bed.

A feature that I hope to see more of in the next generation of 3D printers is a heated enclosure. In the consumer level price category, the only manufacturer doing this now is Qidi Tech; I hope in the near future, more of the 3D printer manufacturers offer heated enclosures, as this will make it easier to print higher temperature materials. I would like to see more printers that are not limited to printing just PLA, PETG, and TPU.

Really nice survey, but you may want to think a bit more about what we can learn from the results. For example, air filtration: Yes, the majority was 2-4 (let's say indifferent), but of those who did care, pretty mich everyone saw "not having one" as a dealbreaker. Not all the information lies in the "peak" and "width" of the distribution

ability to turn the printer of once the print is done while sleeping or at work laser engraving - speed - real run time estimates - silent fans - print head pause to add magnets weights nuts balls keyrings - power out recovery - duel sd cards - sd card removal once you have clicked print so onboard memory? - on off switch on the front - love hart or fav button in menu to know what print works or keep using, i use a folder system of working, always print, testing. - always print for me is some file you print no matter the color u have like a jar keychain or toy.

I wish filament manufacturers provided information about the mechanical properties that their products can achieve under different configurations (layer size, infill, infill pattern…). I feel current filaments could be used for more functional prototypes, but the lack of info makes it difficult to design parts compared to other manufacturing processes that produce isotropic parts (simulating anisotropic parts can be quite difficult if you have to deduce the properties of the part from the ones of the filament). I’d pay for a book with tables listing average properties and recommended extruding settings for different materials, like the ones I use for designing metal, ceramic and plastic components. They are incredibly useful for engineering functional products. Unluckily I haven’t been able to find anything like that in the 3d printing world

There is one thing that every compony seems to avoid... a Glass bed... I just ordered a Creality Ender 3 S1 Plus because it has a "touch" sensor so that I can choose to use a glass bed. I´m printing a lot of large TPU parts and these magnetic sprint steel beds just warp with the printed part because the magnets are not strong enough... Thanks for that really nice video

Non-Planar printing to improve surface finish and reduce waste. I want it now lol.

A video I would love to see is one regarding a workflow designed around the highest reliability in all regards. I see a lot of people trying to make like, a sub 1 minute benchy, but the speeds and stuff the machine is moving at, that has got to be really rough on all the components. I would love to know if there is a sweet spot when it comes to speeds, that is the best balance of reliable to print, easy on the machine, and highest level of uptime/success. I think one of the things that is really cool about 3D printing is the machine can do so much, that I can scale my operation up rather easily by simply adding another 3D printer to my workspace. I don't need to tune one machine to crazy high rates if I can have multiple that are up all the time parallel processing stuff. But it also isn't clear to me if there is also a diminishing return, like can you run a machine so slow that failure increases because plastic is heating up too much in the extruder waiting to be extruded and maybe at slower speeds there is more wear on some components? Does really slow speeds improve ringing, or make it worse? All this stuff I don't actually know but would love to see this information somewhere.

i fit along the same lines as everyone else in this video, however as i get my friends into this hobby, one click printing is one of the things they use the most with bambu

Awesome channel! Pretty new/late to the game and got an Ender3 V2 Neo (because it was cheap), which worked out of the box about 6 months ago, but after lots of reading and watching... it's not an out-of-box unit anymore (or cheap). Conversely, I'm looking at an X1 Carbon for those days when I simply want to load and print. In six months, I have yet to print a toy or trinket. Having said that, there are now parts for an Arc Reactor clock for my son on the printer.

Excellent video.

I feel like this video did a pretty good job summarizing all the data in a way that wasn't exhaustive, which is nice; hopefully we can continue to see improvements and Innovations in the 3D printing space SeemsGood

aw man, I'm bummed that I missed the survey, but one of the things I'd like to see most is the ability to take PET plastic bottles straight from heated, smoothed, and a strip started straight to the hot end for printing. I'd like to use my 3D printer to reduce waste in the world around us and turn it into useful things!

I am very impressed with how far printers have come in such a sort time since buying my ender 3 pro. My same gripe as usual is please someone make a larger bed. Tall printers aren't a big deal. I want something with a larger bed as I make functional parts. Say take something larger than an ender 3 bed and put two together and make it rectangular. Then 8" of Z height would be more than adequate.

"Crazy" Ideas: for near future: i see a loooot potential in good and affordable 3D Scanners - to ease the way for people who can't use CAD for making their own Modes. Far future: a combination out of 3d Scanner (e.g. ur smartphone can probably do that one day reliably), AI 3D Modeling software(is already a thing/fast evolving), very easy CAD software(slicers these days are already Mini Baby CAD-Programs when you think about it) - all and more combined and maybe even implementing in a Slicer. With the goal to reduce the hurdles for new but creative people. "Only one or two clicks from an idea in my head to a ready sliced printing Model"

After modifying and Aquila and an buying a used and modified ender 5 pro and tweaking it further then picking up a K1C (came with free 10w laser that I intend to hook into my 4x8 lowrider CNC)... Something that just works is really nice but I still enjoy messing with the printer itself just about as much as using it sometimes as long as I'm not outright fighting with it. I really like multi-color / multi-material, the cost and waste i'm less happy with. There is one retailer I order liquid cooled computer parts from uses a packaging peanut that is water soluble. Dump them in the sink run a little water over them and they are gone. I believe they are corn based and I really like them over the typical foams and packaging options. The one thing I'd like to see more of is something like the Hydra bed leveling become more common instead of taking things as is out of level actual make it level.

I really wonder how the data would be like if you included people who are into 3D printing, but not to the degree of your audience. I'd argue printers like Bambu help bring in new users, but these new users are not yet in the weeds of 3D printing. A lot of this data is skewed due to it being, I'd argue, mostly this audience answering the survey. I can see questions like cloud connectivity be heavily skewed if a beginner were answering these vs more enthusiast users.

Surprised at the lack of wanting auto part ejection. Ams filament dryer in one or spool holder filament dryer in one would be my #1 ask and pretty sure everyone that has ever had issues with wet filament would pay a few bucks extra for that option.

@RPMiller, I agree 100%. I think the 500MM size is very underserved by the market at this time. I was very glad to see the latest Ratrig can be had with a 500MM bed size and I really like the way they do the 3 different bed sizes with the same form factor. I think modular beds that could be swapped out quickly and easily as needed are something innovative that no has thought to offer. I don't always need a 500MM bed, but it sure is great to have when you do.

I'd really like a glass bed but with a removable sheet steel surface. The glass is a great reference shape to keep the printing plane perfectly flat. Leveling is easy, but flatness is unheard of. I'd rather not have my ABL compensate for divets that result in some dimensional inaccuracy. This is esp the case if you need your bottom surfaces to align to some mechanisms

I think you pretty much nailed it

Concisely potent and of genuine value

13:35 i am surprised that (looks like it) not so many people sayed that the most impressive inovation are reliable and good out of the box printers. For me e.g. i don't care so much that my p1p(now p1s with AMS) is especially fast or has a very good user experience (software e.g.). but the fact that there is no more struggle BROUGHT ME BACK TO 3D Printing - after i slowly but surely dismissed that hobby (using and struggling with my ender 3v2 and Anicubic Viper). "Crazy" Ideas: for near future: i see a loooot potential in good and affordable 3D Scanners - to ease the way for people who can't use CAD for making their own Modes. Far future: a combination out of 3d Scanner (e.g. ur smartphone can probably do that one day reliably), AI 3D Modeling software(is already a thing/fast evolving), very easy CAD software(slicers these days are already Mini Baby CAD-Programs when you think about it) - all and more combined and maybe even implementing in a Slicer. With the goal to reduce the hurdles for new but creative people. "Only one or two clicks from an idea in my head to a ready sliced printing Model"

This is an interesting survey, Michael, and believe it or not there are people looking into 3D printing with drones!

One think I am looking for is composite 3d prints with continuous fibers like markforged but in 10x smaller price for the printer

good interesting video, can't wait to see who listens and what comes of it!😬

Great compilation, as expected by your channel. I think we are trending to 'out of the box' printing. I started from the makerbot days, when you would get some plans, and start from scratch, for me over the tinkering phase. I have a couple of bedslingers in cabinets, and not likely to change. I would like to see the electronic components, sort of out side the box, like the old days, as printing ABS, etc, the heated chamber can cook those components. I have modified my ender 3 s1 with the electronics out of the chamber, without any detriment to the printing outcome, just saying. Again great review, trending in my direction, regards

Very good summary and in this case I'm happy to be in mainstream. There is one point which I would like to stress. Printer enclosure is for me mandatory. I can add filtration or heating later but without enclosure no printer comes in my kitchen. Unfortunately I do not have access to shed or basement :).

going by the results its seems like most people are like i am about it. the printing is the hobby. making the prints as fast as you can, and as perfect as you can is the goal. so anything that makes that easier, firmware, hardware ect is the top priority. then things that make the prints neater come next like idex and mmu followed by anything that doesnt have direct effect on print quality like air filters and packaging..

Really interesting survey. Purchased an inexpensive small printer just to see if it was something I wanted to try. An awful experience. Started looking for something newer and I was going to get a Bambu A1 but it got withdrawn so went for the A mini. No regrets as it is easier to set-up than an Epson printer. Get the odd failed print because of something I did. Quality of output is better than expected. Feels like the 3D equivalent of an Apple product from opening the box to first print. Spare parts are inexpensive and available. I like the quality of resin printing but the faff and space required is too much so I will stick to FDM at the moment.