Print Time about kickstarter-autodesk-3d HOT 2 OPEN

When we did the 2015 Make Magazine 3D printer shootout, we did measure print time, and I do think it is one of the areas where we see the biggest spread in performance. Let's leave this thread open for a while to see if other people are interested in adding this to the protocol, I think it's very much worth exploring.

The main reason that I didn't include it is that I haven't found a reliable and consistent way to measure print time across a wide variety of machines unless you are physically using a stopwatch and observing the duration of the print. Have you found any reliable and easy-to-implement methods of timing prints without manual involvement?

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I agree somewhat.
Print time as reported by the printer (no need to stand around with a stopwatch, a lot of printer firmware already supply this information) should be added to the report. But i don't think we need to add a scoring system yet. We'll need at least a hundred reports for us to be able to figure out a scale.

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