Absolutely not in our case! It did used to sometimes though, so you’re forgiven for thinking it. There has been a wide range of quality available in the past. Some printers got excellent results but it was a skill all of its own and someone else with the same machinery could produce a much lower quality print.  We use the latest and greatest printers available. It is still a skill to fine tune the settings to get the best possible outcome but they are much more robust and high quality machines that reliably produce a product that can compete with any other form of manufacture.  We are 3D printing evangelists, here. There are things you can do with 3D printing that were unimaginable previously. Our thumbwheels for example, are custom designed by us and 3D printed but because plastic threads would never be capable of withstanding the torque, they feature an encapsulated stainless steel nut. Batches of thumbwheels are printed and at a certain point, the print pauses and the nuts are added… then the printer carries on printing over them, trapping them into a lifelong servitude holding your Duck Hunter together! It means we can design the perfect thumbwheel and still have all the strength of stainless steel.