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frontpageSplendidMint7685 posted Aug 16, 2025 10:10 PM
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frontpageSplendidMint7685 posted Aug 16, 2025 10:10 PM
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We use the printers for making models to sell, as well as for prototyping. We've had the full range from creality, to prusa, to bambu. We even had a BCN3d. which cost something like 6 grand.
You'll have a large range of issues that everyone needs to figure out, and some more dramatic ones too.
I had bought a cheap creality printer from microcenter a couple years ago, the thermistor that controls the bed temperature malfunctioned and made maxout on temperature. Rather dangerous.
Currently my 2 prusas have a bad run out sensor and the x axis motor has seized up. Parts are on order, and takes a week or so.
All in all, if you are just getting started and will only print small things and you don't really want too much of a headache, get a bambu a1 from microcenter and buy the warranty. (about 400 bucks)
If you want somthing a bit smaller for print size, the bambu a1mini is about 200 bucks.
If anything goes wrong, you bring it back, and they give you a giftcard for the price of the printer. We recently had to do that for our bambu x1 carbon as the filament system died and we were having alignment issues.
If you want to go cheaper, that's when you start buying other companies that clone the major printers, but thats when you'll start to hit issues with updates and things like that.
Creality for example is one of those, as this is copy of a 1000-1500 dollar bambu.
There is a decent community behind creality, so I've heard of people using open source software to make them work significantly better, but timewise, and partly as a business, I don't have time for that.
Prusa, or Bambu is what i would recommend starting out.
Prusa is from Prague,
Bambu is from China.
For microcenter at least, they had the bambu carbon out, and now they've been carrying the creality version about 2 years later.
I will say that better than half the price is very appealing if you have the time to make it work.
I've got a friend that has been building a 3 foot voron in his free time for the last 3 years. Between all the complaining he does, I think he enjoys the building more than printing.
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