Easy to operate, Wi-Fi printing supported You do have to pay the shipping cost, however. To 3D Systems' credit, the company takes back empty cartridges for recycling and includes a return shipping label for each of them. On average, you can print about a dozen iPhone 6 Plus cases per filament cartridge. Roughly speaking, an object that takes about 10 hours to print would use up about a fifth of a cartridge. In testing, I couldn't print a large number of objects with one cartridge. The Cube 3 also has its own type of cartridges that are not even compatible with other 3D printers from 3D Systems, such as the CubePro for the Cube first and second generations. You can't refill the filament in each cartridge rather, you have to buy a new cartridge entirely. The downside is you have to get the filament cartridges directly from 3D Systems, and they cost $49 each. The printer's touchscreen makes working with it a walk in the park. Judging from what we saw at CES 2015, the active platform is a new trend in 3D printing, with many upcoming printers sharing this design. Indeed, despite the small physical size, the Cube 3 can print objects of up to 6 by 6 by 6 inches (15.25cm cubed). This kind of mechanism reduces the amount of space needed, allowing the printer to be compact, yet still have quite a large print platform. (In many other 3D printers, the print platform only moves up and down, requiring the print-head to move in all other directions.) This means the print-head on top just needs to move sideways. During a print job, the platform moves backward and forward as well as up and down.
The Cube 3 is the first 3D printer I've worked with that employs an active print platform. The printer doesn't have a lot of surface, however, since its front and back side are open, allowing you to view and work with the print platform easily. With the Cube 3, when all parts are installed, its surface is mostly flush and smooth, giving the printer an almost perfect cube shape. To fully appreciate the design, you have to look at many other 3D printers where the filament holders protrude from the printer itself.
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