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I've found that using the "Fuzzy Skin" setting in Cura works well. Then lightly sand. Use a wood stain and wipe off. Then spray on a satin or matte varnish. If that's too much work, just use the "Fuzzy Skin" and call it a day!

link to shelves?

Just make the surface of your part have a wood texture, like the bark of a tree, the wooden filament will help with the illusion of it being real wood

Love this machine! The setup is on point. Got any more prints to share?

Your description of the packaging really resonates with me. Companies that focus on the out-of-the-box experience always stand out

The speed of this printer is incredible. Completing a task in 8 minutes with that quality is impressive. Thanks for showing what it can do in real time!

Pretty cool machine!

Pretty cool machine! Awesome vid, thanks for sharing!

Would love ability to add pictures of the filaments

great video, thanks. .Very insightful

The way I see it, get ONE 3D printer and print some stuff, see how it goes, and put some stuff on Etsy. If, and only if, your business takes off, get more and start a print farm. Don’t shell out multiple thousands of dollars for a business that won’t take off for multiple years, or possibly ever. Worst case scenario, you only bought one 3D printer and can now 3D print cool shit for yourself so that’s neat

Me too

The P1P is a practical suggestion based on value - cost, reliability, print quality, etc. Bambu Lab is a complete non starter for me because of their approach to intellectual property and their lack of respect for my privacy and security. They stood on the back of decades of open source development, layered on a thin veneer of their proprietary technology and locked it all down in their closed garden built atop a mountain of open source technology. The default is printing through the Bambu cloud server and they make it very cumbersome to print offline. There is no way I'm sending the design I created from my computer to their server and then back to the 3D printer that's two feet from my computer. The only reasons I can think of for doing that is so Bambu can have access to my designs. I won't buy any product from a company that would do that.

Great video. Practical in formation, easy to understand and apply, but not dumbed down. FlashForge has always made solid reliable 3D printers with good features and it's surprising that they never achieved as much broad acceptance in the market as they deserve, but they maintain a loyal base of customers. Maybe it's one of the oddities of marketing. FlashForge has been killing it lately. For anyone interested in multi-color or multi-filament printing, the new FlashForge AD5X looks great. Four reels mount to the right side of the printer for easy access, and their clever filament multiplexer swaps filaments at the nozzle for minimal filament waste (aka poop) when changing filaments. It's also possible to load the multi-reel system with the same filament and the printer will automatically switch to the next reel for trouble free printing with no filament waste at the end of a reel. As if all of that isn't enough, the IFS multi-filament system is capable of printing typical 95A durometer TPU, something that Bambu, Creality, et al cannot do. I print a lot of TPU for my small print farm so this is huge. The ability to print a structural material such as PETG, PET-CF or ABS with print in place rubber feet or rubber pads on top is huge. Modern slicers support maximum strength interfacing between dissimilar materials so only a few layers of overlap are needed which minimizes waste from changing filaments and keeps print time low. Instead of buying wooden plates to place under each printer, you can buy concrete slabs. The mass will dampen vibration. 3D printed TPU feet can further decouple the printer from the rack so each printer is mechanically isolated from the others. Putting rubber shock mount feet above and below the concrete slabs would further isolate each printer from the others.

Its NOT profitable - you can't even break even! The one problem no one ever covers is there's zero market gap to have. Basically anyone who wants to print just buys a printer. Anyone who knows they need a lot of printing to be done simply buys a printer. The result is there is basically no need for a 'print farm business' as everyone just does it themself. Then the few established ones have already got the entire market and due to either being funded by donations (maker spaces), being run by universities, or by the printer manufacturers or distributors (might as well make the customer demo's generate revenue), there are no customers. Basically its impossible to be cheaper than those already in the business, thus you'll never get any customers and thus will never make any money. Basically if you can print and sell a product that only you can offer (at least until someone clones it and gives it away online for free), there's zero way to make money from: * 3D printing * Laser Cutting / Laser Engraving * CNC Machining TLDR: You can't make money as a 'print farm' as the entire market is fully saturated, and because most people just buy printers and print what they need because its cheaper for them in the long run. Thus you can't make money. The same applies to laser cutting, laser engraving and CNC machining. Its impossible to be cheaper than the existing solutions as they're not intending to run as 'for profit' so they don't care about under-charging, and, the manufacturers of printers who run a print service so that they have endless useful 'customer demos' don't care if they make no money on the prints as they make the money selling the super expensive printers ($20k+).

For print farms nowadays, finding a niche is indeed crucial. While it can be difficult to start, but once you get in, things become much easier. Customized demands /selling daily need items like cookie cutters on platforms like Etsy /find offline festivals could be a great entry point. I believe this market is still a blue ocean-at least every month, I see posts about people earning thousands of dollars with just a dozen machines.I bulk-purchased their AD5M and dual-silk filaments, which have been performing quite well in the offline market, and I plan to test how they perform on Etsy these days.

eww a real estate broker

Great! Sam. Detailed info about the cost of starting a print farm. Yeah the no.1 difficulty for me is the start-up. A lot of people competing, so I need to think about cost! So Flashforge's high cost-efficiency & high return rate, which great. Never a quick business, need innovation and patience.🤨

It's all about the shelving unit!

I bought a 3D printer a week before Black Friday, started selling Christmas ornament’s. It took off. Now I have 4 printers. Panic bought the others on marketplace to keep up and I made 6k in just a couple weeks. I know that isn’t going to continue but I was able to pay off everything and be in profit in a very short time. I have no desire to do it full time but it’s been fun

Also do i buy one of the new multi color printers?

i learned how to use solidworks at the uni, and kept using it as a hobby. this kind of work would really interest me to do on the side at first, then maybe keep at it full time in the future.

Now that 3D printers are so prevalent (comparatively to the past), and they are so easy to use - the whole 3D printing farm for money being pushed by youtubers like this just is not a reality in 2025. Sure there are exceptions, and you really have to have a niche product that you have designed, but in general the whole 3D printing market is oversaturated. Tubers will casually show numbers like, make $1000 in 30 days - but they are just not realistic in todays market. Don't be fooled into thinking you can buy a couple Bambu printers, and just find some stuff on printables and sell it, and start raking in a couple thousand a month on your "side hustle". Most these dudes are making way more on their video's then they do selling 3d printed parts.

Menards has 6'x24" shelf wood (white, black, etc), that's what I put on my shelves from Sams Club. Been running it for 2 years and it works great.

Quick tip - trading money for time is recommended only when the time you gain is used to make more money than the amount of money you spent to gain that time.

i thought u were using all elegoo black?

Good on you

Great content! I started watching your vids before I started my print business last month with an x1c and an A1 I got for free with my makerworld points I earned on uploaded models. Just hit 100 sales in my first month of selling my designs!

bro talks about Flashforge, but has a full spread of Bambu P1S's behind him lol

I started my Etsy shop with one A1 Mini this year and made my first sale on June 23rd. I have two A1 Minis and did $1300 net profit this month. Ordered my next printer which is a P1S to scale up my little farm. Not bad for a side business I run on my spare time that might take off and be my main gig someday.

your cost for filament is only 1.4% of sales? that seems very low. Even for keychains mine is slightly higher than that, and for most products, significantly higher

I am also a real estate broker very much interested in 3d printing. I have a Bambu P1S with AMS and I love it.

or do you know some one who can 3-D print a part for me thank you

looking for some one to 3-D a part for a 1985 Corvette its a over/ drive switch

I have a print garden. Not quite a farm yet. Started about 4 months ago. Consistently making around an extra grand per month. Your videos have been a great help. Thank you.

$7651 in labor costs? I think that deserves a video. Everyone talks about how much you can make per month. How you need to make X per printing hour. But I have yet to see how you turn that incomes into money you can use to live on. If only doing this as a side hustle. Or something to leave our 9-5's for. We need some general idea of how that it is done. Or point me to a video that does. Thank you.

I just got my Bambulab A1 mini. I’ve been experimenting a lot with it. And it’s been super fun. However, I am located in Colombia, South America. And Etsy is not supported in my country. Do you have any advice on how to best sell my products?

Who plans on starting their 3d printing business in 2025?

I don't know. Seems like it's completely over saturated like EVERYTHING else! Nobody wants a real job anymore and everyone is looking for a "side hustle", and being that you can start this up with a small credit card the real question is who's NOT going to do it?

Yea you can. I had no previous laser experience and launched my product within a week and had made thousands of profit within 3 weeks. Plenty of people have these machines, but they do not have the savvy to select and sell winning products . You can’t teach that it a natural and also comes with a mindset and analytical skills

This very educational and helpful.

I made an Etsy account and it got suspended within 2 minutes.

Just trying to make enough to get my mortgage paid off earlier.

Would love to see an overview of the apps and the print farm.

Etsy is shit already, too many on the same model

Thank you Mr Travolta, this was a good video.

I just bought a P1S as my first printer, because i want a machine that works without me having tò fix It all the time.

Where can I get the STL for this? I dont see it for sale on your page

All my print friends will know of this tool. Glad my algorithm likes me. The ideas of @stephanebastien6334 would be amazing. As well as the A.I. and API integration you mentioned in the video. Thank You.

As someone who was a Etsy Seller for 1 year, I suggest not even doing Etsy. They are honestly a rip off and they steal from their sellers... Every sale I made over all I made $20 out of $1500.. Better off either using Google Sites or anything that is low cost.