Have we hit a wall already

Been in the business for a pretty long time at least when looking at 3d printing as a whole in that time I have seen my share of industry changes. Started with a Ender 3 pro and within a matter of few weeks my brain already started to come up with ways to make the printing more efficient and faster but still keeping quality high soooo I went up in nozzle size and that was the start. Since then I have owned about 30-40 different types of printers including laser engravers. One thing that people sometimes seem to forget when the latest and greatest printers come out and that is that at the end of the day you are melting plastic of some kind and then cooling it as you set the perfect layer line. I am saying this because during this journey I have realized that I think we have reached the end of the journey printers can't get much faster unless you start changing the materials you are melting. And even then there are limitations.

This came to me when using a printer like a FLSun T1 and whatever thoughts or opinions you have on the printer itself I keep all that away when testing a printer I put it into my mix of daily printers which is about 10 units at any point in time some are the same model like Creality K1 and K1 Max but I have them setup for different materials and then I just start it up and go. I use it in the mix and produce my own opinion. That said I have the FLSun T1 loaded with PETG or PLA at times and use it for parts i need now like a modification for a printer or things along those lines and this printer does amazing work it runs really fast and cuts significant time on print time. This printer is the top of the fast printer list in my opinion claiming 1000 mm per sec just imagine that when looking at a printer like the Ender 3 pro that at most ran 30-40 mmps, they even came up with a Cpap fan setup to cool parts fast with outside the printer as and it just works but limitations start when you move so fast that the filament can't cool before moving to the next layer or banking a turn. Its got the potential but material is a limiting factor.

Perhaps this will be the time for people to create better slicers and tune these printers to some unbelievable quality that can happen and I think that is the nature direction. The machines are in place now lets optimize them and get the most we can out of each one with the filament that can hold up. Innovation in filament would naturally push the printer innovation but in time time printers have progressed filament has not move even 10 % in inavation and thats the limiting factor now.

Near future limited printer releases and meaningful changes

Distance future filament innovations to allow current printer to be pushed faster and to full potential as they are limited now