Demand down in some sectors. Every stage of manufacturing hasn't gotten cheaper, might be the same or more expensive in some stages. The last couple of disasters that set things back I feel still resonate a little. But the primary markets seem mass storage, surveillance, etc

I don't have a Mendel built at the moment but I do have a bigbox. Here it is printing makerchips.

Has a certain flexibility, for a US example, Letter and Legal sizes can come from the same roll. Paper wise I would assume rolls are not space efficient given the volume that is the inner core.

Yeah it's going really well right now lol...

Seems like I forgot to edit the tag on that post but @3dprintopia.bsky.social for good measure.

Bonus photos if you are curious how I brought it back. If you take the top plate off the frame it's carry-on sized! Unfortunately HNL airport checkpoint 3 is only operating 2D X-ray so I had to remove my clothes it was back with and rerun it through security.

More photos. Here it is after someone handed it to me. The test print I did at the hotel. Finally sitting in the truck I rode home in. I have since written @marlinfw.org and Klipper configs for it.

Bonus picture. This was it printing back before we changed the extruders. They were difficult to load and he was frustrated. I offered to trade him a Creator Pro for it but it took me awhile to find one so we swapped the Creator Pro extruders in for easy loading first.

Yes. I still haven't put a 2/2X in my collection so I can take a crack at that version but earlier this year I added the OG Replicator to the Marlin config repo.

Bonus photos the carry-on in question and the original box which I checked with my clothes inside of it lol.