The bulk of the MMU perches on the printer’s gantry, while a buffer cartridge sits on the side and a mass of tubes connects to a tabletop, five slot spool holder. Our MMU3 took an additional 23 inches of table space next to the printer with an untidy mess of tubes. The MMU3 is ...
The entire process only takes a few minutes, but I found myself washing, cleaning, and drying the cartridge each time I swapped cores. This takes a good bit of time, and the newly inserted cartridge will take 20 minutes to warm up to printing temperature before printing. If you’re going...
When I last worked with this stuff we were starting to see more and more blade servers, an entire computer on a cartridge that plugged into a rack mounted cage. It was all about higher density, packing more and more physical servers into a rack. They had little storage though, typically ...