Fully assembled printers with good no-hassle results, like the Flashforge Inventor 2, can cost more than $600. At $359, the Vyper is neither the cheapest nor the most expensive 3D printer I’ve tested, but it’s definitely the one that had me set up and creating usable prints the fastest. A quick note about types of 3D printers: This is called an FDM printer, for fused deposition modeling, which means the printer melts a plastic-like 3D filament and builds your project one layer of material at a time. Most consumer 3D printers are FDM models like the Vyper. I printed a 3D test file from the included SD card within minutes of powering on, and I’ve never seen a first print from a 3D printer come out so perfectly. The Vyper comes with a version of popular 3D slicing software Cura, plus a special profile for the Vyper, although you can manually enter the specs into Cura or any other 3D printing app. The point here is to experiment, as almost any 3D printer can be used with any 3D printer software. That’s more than 20 hours of printing time, and the Vyper greatly impressed me by completing each part correctly with no waste.

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