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Nylon Printing

First of all Nylon is just a printing material, so the only things, that matter are:
-extruder
-build platform
-hotend

This list also resembles the importance of the three aspects.

The extruder

The extruder is the part of the printer, that makes the filament move, it consists of a motor, which has a gear attached. The filament is pushed against the gear and by moving the gear the motor can move the filament very precisely. You should look for a spring loaded extruder that uses 1,75mm filament. 3mm or 2,85mm filament works too, but 1,75mm is generally speaking better for higher resolution prints.

Aside from this theres not that much special about the extruder, the gear size doesnt matter alot for Nylon, as long as the teeth are big enough the extruder should work fine. Id recommend printers that use gears similar to the e3d hobbed goblins.

As Nylon isnt very flexible it would be fine to use a bowden extruder. Direct drive extruders or geared direct drive extruders both work fine too, but to get the maximum speed a bowden extruder would be the way to go.

The build platform

Nylon doesnt necessarily need a heated bed, but its recommended. There are a few printbed surfaces (adhesives) that are recommended for Nylon, but youll have to test out the different adhesives as all of them work differently on each printer and setup.

The hotend

Whether you should use an all-metal hotend or one with a PTFE liner is up to you, I would contact the e3d-online.com 61 support to ask them about this. e3d produces both all-metal and non-all-metal hotends so they should know, which one works better.

The hotend should reach 240-250C safely, to ensure, that all Nylon versions can be printed.

I would always go with e3d hotends, ive heard many great things about them and got a dual extrusion hotend by e3d, which works perfect (not tested with Nylon yet).

You have to dry most Nylons before printing, check out taulman3d.com 52 and google seach to find out informations about this.

Most printers have no problem printing Nylon, so it mostly depends on your price range. I would recommend the Lulzbot, Ultimaker, Leapfrog or BigBox 3d printers.

As soon as you can limit your search to a few printers it would be easier to tell, which one is better or worse for Nylon printing, but there are too less general rules to select the best Nylon printer.