Tiko 3d Budget Printer

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A whole new design approach has come to light with the new budget 3D printer known as Tiko. The funding for this new design was created on Kickstarter and has brought forth a number of new design choices to help keep the costs low without sacrificing the quality that you would get with the printing. There is one design that has come to surface with a single body frame that takes hardly any calibration at all.

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In many cases, the frame of the 3D printer is the most expensive thing on the machine. It will allow for the printing to be spot on and to create high standard images through the use of mulitiple beams aimed to make the aligning of the printer consistant. The performance of the printer is what makes the printer stand out from all others and not so much the look of the printer. The hard part with this type of printer however is the calibrating of the beams that have to be done before you are able to make a single print which is not such a hassle with the Tiko. The cost comes into play when you have to spend so much time on this effort however with the Tiko, this is not such a hassle.

The unibody system of the Tiko is going to take away some of this complication with the enclosed body that works to stay aligned inside of the frame. The creators of the Tiko have said that with the strong and lightweight chassis of the Tiko, it makes it almost impossible to have to realign and that the print is still going to be 3D right down to the accuracy of the image despite the fact that it comes with the lack of all the high precision components that most other 3D printers have.

In all, the Tiko has been shown to cut back on the expense of creating the printer without sacrificing any of the quality of the printer. The unique frame of this design that shows that time and thought went into creating it but also shows where the savings come from is going to make keeping the Tiko low priced and cost effective. There is a nozzle that will be used by the parallel arm which guides the nozzle into place. The custom electronics of the printer to the insulated barrel and liquefier is shown to make the best prints when compared side by side with other printers that use more expensive pieces and bulkier machines.

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