Comment on Do NOT buy Creality
Schmuppes@lemmy.today 1 week agoYour 5. is not wrong though. My first printer was a used Ender 3 v2 that I modified and tuned quite a bit until I was finally tired of issues with the bowden extruder and got myself an Ender 3 S1 Pro. In hindsight, I should have purchased the S1 Pro in the first place, but the v2 did teach me valuable lessons, even though I spent more time fixing and tuning the thing than enjoying successful prints.
fhein@lemmy.world 6 days ago
When buying your first car, would you pay extra to get a worse car so you have to learn mechanics in addition to learning how to drive? :)
It’s definitely about finding the least bad printer if shopping the budget stuff, they all have issues as you say. Personally I think it’s best to buy the printer which is the least likely to have severe design and/or manufacturing flaws and focus on learning how to get good prints out of it. When you’re a complete beginner it’s difficult to know if your print turns out bad because you’re doing something wrong or if it’s caused by a hardware issue.