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Enclosed printers for ABS and ASA

An enclosure that merely traps heat is not the same as one that drives it. ABS and ASA stop curling off the plate at around 60 °C of chamber air, which only an actively heated chamber reaches reliably. Heated chambers first, then passive enclosures.

How this list is ordered14 printers, enclosed printers ordered by actively heated chamber temperature, then by hotend temperature. 3 more match but are no longer on sale new in the US, so they are left out.

First on that measure is the QIDI Q2 at 65 °C heated chamber.

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    65 °C heated chamber

  2. 2

    65 °C heated chamber

  3. 3

    65 °C heated chamber

  4. 4

    65 °C heated chamber

  5. 5

    65 °C heated chamber

  6. 6

    65 °C heated chamber

  7. 7

    65 °C heated chamber

  8. 8

    60 °C heated chamber

  9. 9

    enclosed, chamber not heated

  10. 10

    enclosed, chamber not heated

  11. 11

    enclosed, chamber not heated

  12. 12

    enclosed, chamber not heated

  13. 13

    enclosed, chamber not heated

  14. 14

    enclosed, chamber not heated