You can get the Prusa Mini for 200 Euro directly in the online shop of the manufacturer Prusa Research. While with the larger FDM printers from the same company you can decide whether to buy a finished device or a kit (and via 200 saves euros), the Mini is always delivered as a middle thing. In other words: You have to assemble a couple of preassembled assemblies, screwing in a total of four (!) Screws and plugging in a few cables The first calibration up to the first 3D print took a good one and a half hours because the assembly requires a little patience in some places, for example when the ribbon cable of the display is fumbled through a narrow slot or with a long threaded screw behind a protruding part of the housing free sliding slot nut must be aimed.

Thanks to molded stops, there is no guesswork with regard to the intended position, there is not much you can do wrong. The German building instructions are included and leave no questions unanswered, even if the pictures are a bit small due to the A5 format. If you prefer to watch videos, you can also have Joe Prusa show you the structure personally on YouTube – it doesn’t take a quarter of an hour.

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