flashforge3dpro via eBay has
FLASHFORGE Adventurer 5M High-Speed 600 mm/s Auto Leveling WiFi 3D Printer on sale for $299 - 20% off when you apply promo code
PREZ20 at checkout =
$239.20.
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Product Details:- Full-auto one-click leveling, flawless first layer
- PEI Flexible magnetic printing platform, quickly remove the model.
- CoreXY, rapid yet stable, up to 600mm/s print speed.
- 4.3-inch touchscreen, simplify printing operations.
- Quick-release nozzle, snap-on design, 3 seconds replacement
- Supports high-speed filament.
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Software experience is up to you to decide. Bambu is very good here.
As long as you don't bring in Mulit color into the equation. This is also much cheaper right now vs A1.
Some may also say the firmware fiasco could push some users away from Bambu though. I don't personally care and I think it's overblown and will pass
I would buy this over A1 mini at this price
It doesn't seem fair to blame the printer, unless it has trouble actually heating the nozzle.
As someone with a Bambu X1C and an old Creality Ender 3, I don't recommend Bambu for beginners. It's counterintuitive, but 3D printing really requires getting a feel for the balance of many variables. Bambu literally prevents you from making on the fly adjustments, which is essential for learning. Each print takes ~7 minutes to start (3 is you get some optimized startup routine gcode), so you can't, for instance, nudge the z offset a little while printing or tinker with the bed leveling (warped beds are not rare for Bambu printers). Instead, you'll have to adjust, wait 7 minutes, check output, cancel, adjust, wait 7 minutes, etc.
Add to that the fact that Bambu is CLEARLY aiming to lock down user choices even further (and likely go the way of Cricut and monetize every print), and I'd recommend staying away. I'll be selling my X1C once I decide of the replacement. For a beginner, I recommend checking the options around $300 from the popular brands (Creality, Anycubic, etc.) and just make sure to get one with automatic bed leveling and a good community behind it (also preferably open source and "direct drive"). Overall, I think it's important to first get something you're not afraid to take apart. It's really hard to actually ruin a printer, but semi-easy to break parts. With a cheap printer, you're out $5 and a 2-day Amazon (or 1 month AliExpress) wait for replacements.
If the goal is to start printing trinkets right away, yeah Bambu will work, but when you run into problems (and you 100% will with ANY 3D printer), you're likely to spend more time fixing them and less likely to learn why the fixes work. The field just isn't at the point where you can reasonably expect to begin from zero knowledge and have a trouble-free experience.
At least that's my $0.02.
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It doesn't seem fair to blame the printer, unless it has trouble actually heating the nozzle.
As someone with a Bambu X1C and an old Creality Ender 3, I don't recommend Bambu for beginners. It's counterintuitive, but 3D printing really requires getting a feel for the balance of many variables. Bambu literally prevents you from making on the fly adjustments, which is essential for learning. Each print takes ~7 minutes to start (3 is you get some optimized startup routine gcode), so you can't, for instance, nudge the z offset a little while printing or tinker with the bed leveling (warped beds are not rare for Bambu printers). Instead, you'll have to adjust, wait 7 minutes, check output, cancel, adjust, wait 7 minutes, etc.
Add to that the fact that Bambu is CLEARLY aiming to lock down user choices even further (and likely go the way of Cricut and monetize every print), and I'd recommend staying away. I'll be selling my X1C once I decide of the replacement. For a beginner, I recommend checking the options around $300 from the popular brands (Creality, Anycubic, etc.) and just make sure to get one with automatic bed leveling and a good community behind it (also preferably open source and "direct drive"). Overall, I think it's important to first get something you're not afraid to take apart. It's really hard to actually ruin a printer, but semi-easy to break parts. With a cheap printer, you're out $5 and a 2-day Amazon (or 1 month AliExpress) wait for replacements.
If the goal is to start printing trinkets right away, yeah Bambu will work, but when you run into problems (and you 100% will with ANY 3D printer), you're likely to spend more time fixing them and less likely to learn why the fixes work. The field just isn't at the point where you can reasonably expect to begin from zero knowledge and have a trouble-free experience.
At least that's my $0.02.
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I love my 3D printer (A1 combo) and it is true that it is a solution looking for a problem but when I needed to replace a screen door latch hook and could print it I felt great.
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