I just want to put it out there because i know there's a lot of 3d printing people here.
I recently bought a Bambu Labs A1 printer. This is an upgrade from an Ender 3 Pro which I had running well but it was a bit exhausting with all the tweaking and maintenance that came along with it.
The A1 is amazing (it's only been about a month so hopefully that holds up). Putting it together took about an hour or so but was really simple. First print...with doing nothing except following the prompts and running the calibrations it told me to, came out perfect.
Since then I've printed a bunch of Gridfinity stuff to organize my electronics parts. Generally I'm finding that prints that used to take 5 1/2 hours are taking about 1 hr 20 minutes. I've run out of filament once and it just prompted me to load more and continued on its way.
So far, I've only had 1 failed print. That was when I was trying to use up some of the old end of spools that I had before. I'm not sure if it was from the reloading of the filament(I doubt it) or the fact that the filament I was trying to get rid of was old and brittle.
Needless to say, I'm really happy with it and would suggest it to anyone looking to upgrade or get starting in printing. I got the one without the color swapping mechanism, I just see me using that much. Although you can still print with different colors, you'd just have to do it manually.
I recently bought a Bambu Labs A1 printer. This is an upgrade from an Ender 3 Pro which I had running well but it was a bit exhausting with all the tweaking and maintenance that came along with it.
The A1 is amazing (it's only been about a month so hopefully that holds up). Putting it together took about an hour or so but was really simple. First print...with doing nothing except following the prompts and running the calibrations it told me to, came out perfect.
Since then I've printed a bunch of Gridfinity stuff to organize my electronics parts. Generally I'm finding that prints that used to take 5 1/2 hours are taking about 1 hr 20 minutes. I've run out of filament once and it just prompted me to load more and continued on its way.
So far, I've only had 1 failed print. That was when I was trying to use up some of the old end of spools that I had before. I'm not sure if it was from the reloading of the filament(I doubt it) or the fact that the filament I was trying to get rid of was old and brittle.
Needless to say, I'm really happy with it and would suggest it to anyone looking to upgrade or get starting in printing. I got the one without the color swapping mechanism, I just see me using that much. Although you can still print with different colors, you'd just have to do it manually.
