Where to Find Affordable Multicolor 3D Printers?

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Several interesting moonscape files can be downloaded from here for 3D printing.
 
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Some Home Depot stores started stocking them about a year ago.
'3D printer group' yields 1 700 000 hits on Google. I hear there are several physical groups/co-ops around my area, Southern California.
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
Anyone got suggestions at a reasonable price?
Here is a description of a new multicolor printer for something like $500.
The 3D printer market is changing quickly these days. There used to a a place where I would send people for an overview of available printers (consumer and professional) but I think they gave up because of too many new companies and rapid changes.
I would recommend looking into anything you might want to buy before purchasing it.
Keeping complex features to a minimum might also make later used easier.

I bought a printer several years ago. It has two extruder nozzles for doing two kinds (or colors) in the same printing. This is cool, but there was not a good way to adjust them relative to each other.
Because they came not at exactly equal height and there was no adjuster screw, I had to remove the extruders from that which holds them, make a bunch of shims and try a variety out until I got them perfectly equal in height.
A self-leveling print surface is now pretty normal as I understand and would reduce fiddling.