Ultimaker S3 3D Printer

We ordered six of these printers in the last three months from Matterhackers and have had nothing but problems with three of six of them. When the print starts, the print heads will run a quick calibration to check the heights. This fails constantly and aborts the print. It happens on most of our S3 printers. On the better ones, it will work on the second or third try and on the worst it is completely un-usable. We are in the process of replacing PCB boards and relatively extensive troubleshooting but it is not ideal. If it was one of the printers I would probably just consider it a rare defect but this is definitely a very common problem. If you buy one, expect to spend a couple weeks working out unnecessary bugs before you can reliably print.

I used these at work for a 3d printing class. They were really easy to use. Easy fix if there were clogs or the pla got stuck. Very user friendly. The interface to print were pretty simple to use as well. Changing out extruders were simple as well. The leveling was made easy as well as the ones we used self leveled. If they didn't cost so much I would love to have one at home.