by Chris Anjel | Oct 11, 2026 | MJF & SLS Operations
Depowdering is where powder-bed shops lose hours they never quoted. In an r/AdditiveManufacturing thread called “Opinions on SLS,” operators kept coming back to the same point: printing is the easy part, and post-processing is the hard part. So when does...
by Chris Anjel | Oct 11, 2026 | MJF & SLS Operations
PA11 vs PA12 is a choice MJF customers often can’t make on their own, and bureau owners argue about it too. In an r/3Dprinting thread, an operator running PA11 on an HP MJF 5200 called it “superior to the standard Nylon 12 in every way,” while...
by Chris Anjel | Oct 11, 2026 | MJF & SLS Operations
MJF vs SLS is one of the first questions buyers ask a bureau that runs powder-bed machines. A July 2026 r/3Dprinting thread put it plainly. An engineering team outsourcing functional parts asked whether MJF really is more isotropic than SLS, and whether the grey color...
by Chris Anjel | Oct 11, 2026 | MJF & SLS Operations
SLS orange peel is a rough, pitted texture on vertical surfaces that makes a good part look cheap. On the Formlabs community forum, Fuse 1+ owners swap notes on it regularly. The usual question: why does it show up on some builds and not others, and how do you stop it...
by Chris Anjel | Oct 11, 2026 | MJF & SLS Operations
MJF packing density is the number every bureau owner wants to push up, because a fuller build spreads the fixed cost of a print over more parts. Operators on r/AdditiveManufacturing recently argued over a vendor article claiming much higher packing figures than they...
by Chris Anjel | Oct 11, 2026 | MJF & SLS Operations
If you dye MJF parts or vapor smooth them, you’re solving two different problems. “What’s the best smoothing for MJF PA12?” comes up on Reddit again and again, and customers ask bureaus the same thing in plainer terms: can it be black, smooth,...
