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Newegg Business, Davinci XYZ jr 1.0

There's DRM on the filament and it's PLA only, but you can buy the key to unlock and rewrite the DRM NFC chip. I use an app on my phone to rewrite the values



DRM on the filament, so you need to buy their filament? How does that work?


The inside of the roll has an NFC chip in it. The NFC has information on color, amount of filament left, temperature settings etc.

I call it DRM because you can't edit it without a reverse engineered NFC key.

Another side to the DRM thing is that if you use inferior input material and the printer has a quality issue, customers are going to blame the printer and not the filament.

Value added DRM I guess


Is that a really good printer? I’m seeing bad reviews?


It's a printer you can get for $160. At that price I would expect more bad reviews because of unrealistic expectations.


It's an okay 3d printer. I use it for making toys, statues, etc. There are various companies that offer 3d printing as a service with different materials, precisions, surface finishes etc like stratasys, 3D hubs, xometry.

These printers are nice to prototype with before sending it to a more costly and less time investment forgiving production printer, or quick around the house jobs/play.

Feel free to reach out if you want help getting started: my username @gmail.com




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