Game changing printers. I have the P1P and couldn’t be happier. It’s so incredibly reliable and fast. Out of the 300+ prints it’s completed so far I have only had 2 failures and those were model design errors. Literally haven’t done anything to this printer except take it out of the box and set it up. Best thing is if anything ever does break bambulab sells all of the repair parts for it for dirt cheap. 10/10 user experience compared to dealing with Creality machines for the last decade.
1 year ago | 0
I've been printing non-stop for about 2 months with my X1 carbon combo. About 25 or 30 kg so far. Mostly PETG and a little bit of PLA. Nothing exotic yet. It just got an update and got a lot quieter too! I would guess that my only gripe would be that it takes 6 to 10 minutes to run its calibration before each print. Even if you disable some of the calibration it takes a while to get going. The feature that I actually like the most is the "AMS filament backup" It will switch to another spool if you have the same color loaded. So far it's worked flawlessly. Because of it I don't have a whole bunch of mostly empty spools everywhere. It uses every single bit of the filament.
1 year ago | 0
110% Yes. I started with an Elegoo Neptune 2 for FDM and an Elegoo Saturn 2 8K with a Creality Wash and Cure Station for SLA. The Neptune 2 had multiple issues and was down awaiting spare parts longer than it's been printing. I picked up a Creality Ender 3 Pro from Micro Center to compensate for the Neptune 2 but it would not bed level out of the box, so I had to modify mine to secure the plate screws as they were turning on me as I was leveling the bed. The Ender 3 was more reliable, but I still had down time with it waiting on parts a few times that Micro Center did not stock. I also had problems with both Elegoo and Creality honoring my warranty because I bought those 3D Printers through their US vendors rather than waiting a projected month for them to ship from China if buying direct. The COVID lock down did delay parts shipping out of China because of their lock down policies and twice my parts sat on a ship outside Long Beach port for weeks when COVID shut down our US ports to China. I paid more for my Bambu Labs X1C but I bought it direct. From order to delivery I had my X1C within three days. I was able to unbox it and get the X1C and the AMS operational in 45 minutes. I started printing and it just works. In the last month I've had just one failed print but I left the cabinet light on during calibration with black PLA so the fault was mine. No stringing, no major gaps or artifacts in printing, less visible layer lines, and increased speed on prints are what I've enjoyed. I've ordered filament direct at least 7-8 and it's on my doorstep in either 3 or 4 days as some came from the New Jersey facility and some from the Texas facility. The X1C literally paid for itself in 5 weeks so I ordered a second X1C with its own AMS on the Black Friday pricing that started in October. They also backed up my purchase of my first and issued a store credit between what I paid for my first and the Black Friday price which was just awesome. So if you sell prints then this is a no trainer in my opinion, it's an upgrade on so many levels.
1 year ago | 0
When I started 3D printing, I bought a propriatarian printer, which held me over the barrel for filament and glue for the build plate. I prefer open source open access printers.
1 year ago | 0
Great printers, there is no question that they make some of the best printers on the market, but there are issues with the digital services. Since all their cloud services fall under the Chinese National Digital Security act, any and all information they collect has to be available to the PRC. This would include anything you print, anything the camera and sensors collect, including network information. So if you use this in any other capacity than personal use to print stuff from thingaverse, then you up your business up to the PRC, if Bambu doesn’t want to, they are required by China law. The Lan only mode and stand alone mode leave a lot to be desired since all the data on the machine is still encrypted and hidden from the user and as of writing they do not have an offline way to update the firmware. When you bring the system online all the collected data could be transferred. Bambu could use regional servers in the EU and US that would fall under their privacy laws, but I am not sure if they can with the way the current PRC National Security laws are written. This is all public information and is outlined in Bambu terms of service. This is not a conspiracy theory. My conspiracy theory mind does ask questions on how they are able to put out machines that are under market price, is that because of Government subsidy, selling at a loose to put the competition out of business or gain market share? Are they subsidizing their costs with data collection for the PRC?
1 year ago | 0
Glenn Brian 3D
Would you recommend a Bambu Printer?
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