> but tbh what you pay for with formlabs is getting the perfect prints every time.
My 45 email chain with Formlabs would beg to differ.
I'm being a little bit silly. The reason for the (over)engineering of their products is to be as turn key as possible, and this includes materials. I give them credit for the ambition to try to be the "Apple" of 3d printing. I'm not 100% negative on Formlabs, and they've certainly played an important part in making even resin printing more mainstream and accessible to the consumer. That OG Form was the printer everyone wanted at the time, and for good reason. Not to mention the geometries we're printing are especially tricky (by design). So although I sound pretty negative in most of the comments here, all in all I both understand and respect what Form is trying to do. Things just... aren't as easy as they try to make them out to be.