As someone who has multiple printers, it’s worth saving up the extra amount. Especially if you plan on multi-color printing, just what you save from print waste will more than justify the cost
If I was still printing a bunch for TTRPGs then yeah I’d probably agree. I feel like to justify a $900 printer I’d have to start selling prints. I could do that, but then I’m turning a hobby into a side hustle, and then I’ve gotta find customers, and meet deadlines, and source models that are high enough quality to sell without legal trouble.
Idk, maybe. It does look nice.
Edit: Ugh, I went down the Full Spectrum rabbit hole. If I’m not mistaken, translucent filament on a 4 head printer can handle basically any color. The U1 is becoming more and more attractive. My poor wallet.
Dooooo eeet! Let the filament flow through you! I am your father.
Seriously though, I have 6 printers spanning Bambu, Anycubic, creality etc. 4 of them are multi-color and none of them can touch the u1 on pretty much every metric.
The U1 is fast, prints amazing, has open source firmware and minimizes filament waste by a ridiculous amount.
The Kobra 3 Max is my most used printer, but it only gets more use because it’s a large format printer and I’ve been printing some large art piece stuff(if it wasn’t for the constant filament clogs with the crappy filament cutter system it would be great).
Don’t even touch my p1S anymore unless I need to print a bunch of stuff at the same time.
(Other printers are used for more industrial prints so multicolor isn’t something I care about with them)
I can second the U1. I got it after my modded Ender 5 that I fitted with a two-head toolchanger.
It’s night and day. The U1 isn’t quite as fast in real life as the marketing material says, but it’s still much faster than the Ender 5. It prints perfectly every time. Since I had it I had a single print failure, and that was because I didn’t clean the bed propperly and the print detatched from the fingerprinty bed. Other than that, every single print worked flawlessly.
The toolchanger also saves so much waste compared to a filament changer.
I know it’s beyond your stated budget, but I wouldn’t want anything else (except maybe a Prusa XL, but that thing is ridiculously expensive).
Btw, the U1 is rather open sourcy, and there’s a custom firmware that improves a lot of issues with the OG firmware.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It looks nice, but 50% more than my budget. I’m not sure I can justify it.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As someone who has multiple printers, it’s worth saving up the extra amount. Especially if you plan on multi-color printing, just what you save from print waste will more than justify the cost
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
If I was still printing a bunch for TTRPGs then yeah I’d probably agree. I feel like to justify a $900 printer I’d have to start selling prints. I could do that, but then I’m turning a hobby into a side hustle, and then I’ve gotta find customers, and meet deadlines, and source models that are high enough quality to sell without legal trouble.
Idk, maybe. It does look nice.
Edit: Ugh, I went down the Full Spectrum rabbit hole. If I’m not mistaken, translucent filament on a 4 head printer can handle basically any color. The U1 is becoming more and more attractive. My poor wallet.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Dooooo eeet! Let the filament flow through you! I am your father.
Seriously though, I have 6 printers spanning Bambu, Anycubic, creality etc. 4 of them are multi-color and none of them can touch the u1 on pretty much every metric.
The U1 is fast, prints amazing, has open source firmware and minimizes filament waste by a ridiculous amount.
The Kobra 3 Max is my most used printer, but it only gets more use because it’s a large format printer and I’ve been printing some large art piece stuff(if it wasn’t for the constant filament clogs with the crappy filament cutter system it would be great).
Don’t even touch my p1S anymore unless I need to print a bunch of stuff at the same time.
(Other printers are used for more industrial prints so multicolor isn’t something I care about with them)
squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I can second the U1. I got it after my modded Ender 5 that I fitted with a two-head toolchanger.
It’s night and day. The U1 isn’t quite as fast in real life as the marketing material says, but it’s still much faster than the Ender 5. It prints perfectly every time. Since I had it I had a single print failure, and that was because I didn’t clean the bed propperly and the print detatched from the fingerprinty bed. Other than that, every single print worked flawlessly.
The toolchanger also saves so much waste compared to a filament changer.
I know it’s beyond your stated budget, but I wouldn’t want anything else (except maybe a Prusa XL, but that thing is ridiculously expensive).
Btw, the U1 is rather open sourcy, and there’s a custom firmware that improves a lot of issues with the OG firmware.