Print Time

[schbrownie]

If we are looking to get a true apples-to-apples comparison between printers, the amount of time spent printing the objects should also be taken into comparison.

Just my two cents, but I would suggest that additional points be allocated towards print speed with a faster time to completion being awarded more points than slower printing. (and this should be the actual print time - not the theoretical time calculated by the slicer)

[andreasbastian]

When we did the 2015 Make Magazine 3D printer shootout, we did measure print time, and I do think it is one of the areas where we see the biggest spread in performance. Let's leave this thread open for a while to see if other people are interested in adding this to the protocol, I think it's very much worth exploring.

The main reason that I didn't include it is that I haven't found a reliable and consistent way to measure print time across a wide variety of machines unless you are physically using a stopwatch and observing the duration of the print. Have you found any reliable and easy-to-implement methods of timing prints without manual involvement?

[mlune]

I agree somewhat.
Print time as reported by the printer (no need to stand around with a stopwatch, a lot of printer firmware already supply this information) should be added to the report. But i don't think we need to add a scoring system yet. We'll need at least a hundred reports for us to be able to figure out a scale.