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Guides for getting good prints, what we stand for and what we are up to. Written by the people who print your parts.
Prints for the people who make things
Printhead is for hobby designers and home fixers with an idea, a file or a broken part who want it printed well at a fair price. A clip on the dishwasher snaps. The wall mount you want for your drill batteries doesn't exist. You found the perfect organiser online, or drew one yourself, but you don't have a 3D printer, or yours can't print what you need. We print for people who make and fix things at home: hobby designers, tinkerers and hemmafixare, as we say in Swedish. Ordering a single part is completely normal here. A lot of print services…
How to get a good print
A few small things in your 3D file make a big difference to how your part turns out. These are the ones we see most often. We read your file in millimetres. If your part shows up 25 times too small on the upload page, it was drawn in inches: switch the units to in and the size and price update. We can show and price these straight away. STEP files are welcome too, but we can't preview them in the browser, so we check them by hand and email you the price. The printer lays down lines about 0.4 mm wide, so a 1.2 mm wall is three lines side…
Respect the designers
Behind almost every good 3D model is a person who spent hours drawing, testing and printing it. Here is how we think about other people's designs, and how you can give them the credit they deserve. The 3D printing world is unusually generous. Thousands of designers share their models online, often for free, on sites like Printables, MakerWorld and Thingiverse. A good wall mount or organiser can take days of measuring, drawing and test prints before it fits just right. Sadly, some people print those designs and sell them as their own, without asking and without paying the designer a single krona. It is unfair…