Last year I jumped into 3D printing not knowing where it would take me. I had my doubts that I would ever do anything useful with a printer and figured it would just be an expensive toy. One year on and I find my printer to be an indispensable tool used for everything from 'reality checking' designs for Palatov Motorsports to inventing new things and developing solutions for all those times when I think "I really wish I had something that did this.." My little Printrbot has been such a great tool that I decided in 2016 to significantly upgrade my printing capabilities with a Lulzbo Taz 5. As you can see from this picture, the Taz 5 is a serious machine dwarfing my Printrbot. Make magazine recently deemed this printer the best in a collection of excellent machines but to be fair my Printrbot in the same comparison came pretty close to earning a similar score. Will it live up to the hype? I'll soon find out!