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What 3D Printer should I buy as my first?
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The are also printers that are inspired by the voron project, while not fully being a voron, but more pre-assembled. I think sovol has some, and formbot has the troodon series, including a smaller 250mm version.
I haven't used either, but it might be worth looking into. I did but a voron kit by formbot and honestly that was great. Firmware is just klipper, so fully open source, of course.
can't vorons be bought prebuilt these days?
They aren't vorons then. There are printers, including some that I listed, that are very closer to this conceptually, but they aren't allowed to be called vorons (and you won't get an official serial number for them).
One core point of a voron is the fact that it's built, from scratch, by you. A pre-assembled printer can never be a Voron.
Note that anyone is free to use the parts and designs, that's the point of them being open-source. The Voron name is intentionally protected so you can't sell a commercial 3d printer product called Voron.
i mean, as long as you get the excellent functionality of a voron.
you won't get the prestige or the customization, but it'd be fine as a first printer i suppose.
Sovol sv08 is basically a prebuilt voron