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
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shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It annoys me to no end just how prevalent Bambu is.
HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Gotcha, maybe an ender 3 v2 was not the right printer for me then.
HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.)?
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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 it’s 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.
swagmoney@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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 😎
Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
skulkbane@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.