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4lan@lemmy.world 4 months agoOverall I love it. If you are into tinkering, which it sounds like you are, you’ll like it.
My K1 is about 4x faster than my modded ender 3. I print at 420mm/s max speed on my K1 with 20k mm/s2 max acceleration. It is amazing how fast things finish. Overnight prints are now day prints.
You can get near-perfect prints out of the box, but will want to do some calibration to get better results. There are built in calibration tools in the Creality slicer. There is a VFA problem, but it seems to go away if I print walls above 220mm/s. Printing with polycarbonate is now fully possible and I love it. I print most replacement parts for the printer in PC.
This thing is fully able to be modded, which I love about it. I’ve added:
- second side aux fan
- lighter printed hotend housing
- side-spool mounts
- tramming bed knobs
- 270deg door hinge
- lid-riser with LED strips inside
ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Thank you! That’s very helpful!
Do you have to use creality slicer or can it still work with Cura or Prusaslicer? And can I still use octoapp to watch/tune from my phone? That seems to be the biggest drawback I was able to sus out of their marketing materials is that it seems to be a lot more locked down to the creality ecosystem than prior models, I’m hoping that’s changed or I was just interpreting it wrong.
Thanks again, appreciate the insight!
4lan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You can use any slicer you like. I have mine connected to Cura, Creality and Prusa slicers with the ability to send and start a print right from the slicers.
I never once set mine up with their Creality cloud app, you can skip that during setup and just do LAN and USB prints.
The key is to root it, which is really easy, then you can install Fluidd and have way more control during prints. You can even change your pressure-advance on the fly. There are tons of mods you can do after rooting such as these
from the looks of this post you can now use octoeverywhere on K1 printers
ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
That’s great, thanks so much! Pretty much seals the deal for me.
4lan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just don’t pay MSRP! They often go on sale for $700. Got mine for $680 before tax!
If you do pull the trigger, here is my Creality slicer profile for quiet, yet fast, printing: lemmy.world/post/10712707