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Old 07-23-2025, 12:30 PM   #2992
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Originally Posted by Renate View Post
I was looking at some "Best of" reviews for 3D printers.
Of one they said, "Does not require cloud".
"Huh, why would you need/want/tolerate cloud?"
Apparently most 3D printer manufacturers have the "Amazing feature 21" implemented using their cloud servers.
The first 3D printer I owned (New Matter MOD-t) was won as a prize at a network dog & pony show. It worked fairly well but the real work was all done in the cloud over WiFi (fairly decent) or on your local computer via USB (I found some odd glitches) and it's filament feed was not great. Move forward a bit and New Matter shutdown. No more WiFi printing and the New Matter desktop application's odd glitches were never going to be fixed. For a while I used it with Cura software to generate the input for the New Matter desktop application but then the heater stopped working. I now had a rather large paperweight.
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