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It annoys me to no end just how prevalent Bambu is.
The problem is they make a really good printer at a really good price... But with them locking down their printers, I won't be buying another.
They are really good machines for the price, and i will hold of the lock down update to the best of my ability. Next one ill probably build a voron or something that can print with high temperature.
I don't like them either but I am strongly considering getting one because all the reports that it consistently works out of the box without any kind of mods as I need to just send prints to it and get a good print out without any fiddling about every time
These days this is true of many other brands as well. The early days of your printer showing up as a kit full of bits and requiring you to spend as much time wrenching on it as using it are gone, unless you deliberately go and seek something like that out.
Qidi, Anycubic, Prusa, Creatality, and probably tons of others I can't think of off the top of my head also make machines that are unbox-and-use.
Gotcha, maybe an ender 3 v2 was not the right printer for me then.
By the way, what is a good printer that needs little to no maintenance and can continuously print multiple parts for days (Self leveling, spaghetti sensing, etc.)?
The Qidi Q2 has built-in spaghetti detection (and print failure detection in general), auto leveling, bed mesh compensation, etc. It's not a print farm machine, though, so how you'll get your parts off the bed and into your finished bucket will require some outboard tools and elbow grease. If its mechanicals are anything like my prior X-Max 3 from them I don't predict it will require any adjustment, maintenance, or parts replacement for many hundreds/thousands of hours of runtime. I guess eventually you'll need a nozzle at minimum, and you might want to lubricate the linear guides on the gantries every now and again.
It's also compatible with their "Qidi box" filament changer doohickey if that sort of thing is important to you.
I think they have a reputation more than reality that came about because everyone was upgrading from $150 Ender 3's so in comparison it was incredible.
The 3d printing nerd shown at the top couldn't get petg to print out of the box.
i heard people have had good luck with them. i, however, had terrible luck with a p1s. mine had a factory defect and in troubleshooting and replacing parts i came to find that the design and build quality wasn't that good. i wouldn't buy another one because of the experience i had working on it. and on top of that customer support was inconsistent, i had to frequently repeat myself because they wouldn't read back in our correspondence, they contradicted themselves and it took over a year for them to honour the warranty. sold that pos and replaced it with a prusa 😎
Looks like the embargo just lifted
Tom Sanladerer pointed some disqualifying flaws at least. Not just praise. But still - as far as I'm considered - no Tux, no Bux. I'd rather buy an inferior or more expensive printer that I can thinker with for as long as I own it, rather than relying on faith to not get locked out of my own printer.
I did enjoy watching him drill a big hole in the back of the filter chamber and add another fan to actually draw the air though it. But yeah, at least Sanlanderer pointed out those poor to bad design choices in the machine.
My biggest disappointment was in seeing the XY gantry being all glued together making it irreparable. It's a good thing I'm not in someone that would buy this printer anyway.
Yes, you make a good point. Even the hardware is locked-down. Not something I would buy at this point. Perhaps as my first printer, but then, it's not cheap exactly.
I’m not sure what you’re getting at?
Company has a launch time for new products. YouTubers make videos about products, where they’re free to criticise those products. They have sponsors from different companies to support that video.
Are you claiming it sinister because they’re given a time when the product can be show so it’s fair to all creators?
More often than not, they are signing an agreement to not say anything negative in order to get the sponsorship.
I just watched one of these four videos (top left) and they were happy to point out the positives and negatives of the printer.
Am I to believe I was incredibly lucky choosing that one?
It was a general statement about youtube sponsorships.
I am not privy to Bambu Labs clauses. In fact, I have never heard of this company.
Ok. Perhaps don’t make statements that are not known to be true then.
How many sponsorships have you gotten?
Unless it is sponsored by an completely different company