Well, the starting price is exactly the same at the moment 🙂 both have an air manager included.
The question I was asking myself is if the repairs will be needed if It is only used for hobby printing, not very large volumes nor quantities. But the repairs you are talking of are concerning the printer cores?
Is the quality difference that big?
Now I'm thinking if buying them all 3 and reselling them in the community.
Could you say something about the machines when you have a serial code? For ex the build year/revision?
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If you are going to turn around and sell it then definitely the UM3.
If you are cheap like me then get the UM2 plain. I really am not a fan of the extended - it's just taller - I prefer wider which is not an option. So UM2. The UM3 can print dual colors but I rarely use that option (not in the past 2 years and I have 5 printers I use every week). More importantly the UM3 can more easily print higher temp materials like Nylon (which UM2 can do but UM3 better at it) and it can print PVA which is a water soluble support - just put the print in water bucket overnight and the support structures dissolve away.
But the UM2 will print nicer quality due to the lighter weight head. And PVA is expensive. And the UM3 is a bit more likely to have a failure that's costly to repair. But really both the UM2 and UM3 are work horses and even when very old are still valuable.
If you are not as cheap as I am then get the UM3 as it has more capabilities and those capabilities are occasionally very very useful.
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