Everyone that sees my printer asks about resolution, is usually impressed by its resolution,

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Everyone that sees my printer asks about resolution, is usually impressed by its resolution, and generally thinks that resolution is a good thing… which, I suppose it is. But it pales in comparison to reliability.

No one ever asks me about reliability - and yet reliability is everything! Once you have a reliable printer, you can print things; big things, little things, anythings!

Try not to worry about resolution. If you are printing reliably and want higher resolution, then print yourself some upgrades - it’s trivial once you have a reliable printer! You could even print another printer, and design it to be ultra-high-resolution while keeping your low-res, reliable workhorse doing its reliable workhorse things.

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There’s always a confusion between resolution and z layer height though. The resolution really is the smallest detail that we can achieve with the nozzle. So far as I’ve seen, that’s 0.2mm.

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Other than in the Z direction, “resolution” isn’t an accurate description of what we’re dealing with. It’s accuracy and a minimum detail size, which are defined by the mechanics and the hotend.

Anyways, a printer that works reliably and repeatably is worth much more than one that does a super-detailed print every five tries.