expired
This Deal Has Expired We can notify you when similar deals are posted. Set up Deal Alert
Deal Details
QIDI is running a Black Friday Sale that has their X-Smart 3 at $299, use coupon code UP03 for an extra $20 off, bringing your total to $279.
Additionally, at least for my state there was no sales tax required, QIDI is a small enough company that this may be the case for your state as well, but you'll need to check.
At this price, it's seriously worth considering buying over the Bambu Lab A1 Mini. The camera is a separate $40 add-on, and you need to manually set the z-offset, *but* this is a Core-XY printer with an enclosure (that will maintain 50-60C with the doors closed), a nozzle that gets up to 300C, and a bed that gets up to 120C, which means you can print with a lot more useful filaments (think ABS, ASA etc.) that the A1 Mini can't handle due to the 80C max bed temp and lack of an enclosure.
https://qidi3d.com/products/qidi-x-smart-3
Additionally, at least for my state there was no sales tax required, QIDI is a small enough company that this may be the case for your state as well, but you'll need to check.
At this price, it's seriously worth considering buying over the Bambu Lab A1 Mini. The camera is a separate $40 add-on, and you need to manually set the z-offset, *but* this is a Core-XY printer with an enclosure (that will maintain 50-60C with the doors closed), a nozzle that gets up to 300C, and a bed that gets up to 120C, which means you can print with a lot more useful filaments (think ABS, ASA etc.) that the A1 Mini can't handle due to the 80C max bed temp and lack of an enclosure.
https://qidi3d.com/products/qidi-x-smart-3
Community Notes
About the Poster
Deal Details
Community Notes
About the Poster
QIDI is running a Black Friday Sale that has their X-Smart 3 at $299, use coupon code UP03 for an extra $20 off, bringing your total to $279.
Additionally, at least for my state there was no sales tax required, QIDI is a small enough company that this may be the case for your state as well, but you'll need to check.
At this price, it's seriously worth considering buying over the Bambu Lab A1 Mini. The camera is a separate $40 add-on, and you need to manually set the z-offset, *but* this is a Core-XY printer with an enclosure (that will maintain 50-60C with the doors closed), a nozzle that gets up to 300C, and a bed that gets up to 120C, which means you can print with a lot more useful filaments (think ABS, ASA etc.) that the A1 Mini can't handle due to the 80C max bed temp and lack of an enclosure.
https://qidi3d.com/products/qidi-x-smart-3
Additionally, at least for my state there was no sales tax required, QIDI is a small enough company that this may be the case for your state as well, but you'll need to check.
At this price, it's seriously worth considering buying over the Bambu Lab A1 Mini. The camera is a separate $40 add-on, and you need to manually set the z-offset, *but* this is a Core-XY printer with an enclosure (that will maintain 50-60C with the doors closed), a nozzle that gets up to 300C, and a bed that gets up to 120C, which means you can print with a lot more useful filaments (think ABS, ASA etc.) that the A1 Mini can't handle due to the 80C max bed temp and lack of an enclosure.
https://qidi3d.com/products/qidi-x-smart-3
Community Voting
Deal
Score
+3
Good Deal
Bad Deal
Join The Conversation
Share your experience with the Slickdeals community
Share information with the community. Please follow our Community Guidelines and be kind!
11 Comments
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Aurora Tech's review of the X-Smart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramCqzI
The main downside over the K1 is going to be that smaller print volume. Manual Z-offset is also a minor gripe, but that's an infrequent and minor chore. If you don't need the extra print volume, the X-Plus is the more appealing unit IMO.
Aurora Tech's review of the X-Smart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramCqzI
The main downside over the K1 is going to be that smaller print volume. Manual Z-offset is also a minor gripe, but that's an infrequent and minor chore. If you don't need the extra print volume, the X-Plus is the more appealing unit IMO.
I was pretty close to pulling the trigger when I saw this review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwx62Nt
It's really long, but I did watch the whole thing. Like you said, QIDI didn't bother to give it the same hardware update as to the other two, so everything is basically plastic including the housing for all the fastening screws and bolts that screw straight into plastic even though they're under severe stresses!
The bottom line is it's a throw-away printer because it's unrepairable. If one of those screws strips, you're done. I mean it is relatively cheap, but I'm also used to being able to replace pretty much everything on a printer so if this thing goes bad after a year of use then it was actually pretty expensive.
QIDI dropped the ball when they initially released all three of those printers, but they made good on the other two. This one here is still a big question mark since there aren't any long-term reviews yet.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Join The Conversation
Share your experience with the Slickdeals community
Share information with the community. Please follow our Community Guidelines and be kind!