What 3D Printer should I buy as my first? (piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/3dprinting@lemmy.ml

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So the Bambu labs A1 looks like the perfect starting point.

One problem, it uses proprietary firmware and software, I'm a big advocate for owning the things you buy, and not supporting companies that don't allow you to do that as much as I reasonably can. So yea I can't buy Bambu.

The Creality SparkX i7 seems nice, it looks like a straight up clone of the A1
https://store.creality.com/eu/products/sparkx-i7-3d-printer

I've heard a lot of people complain about Creality though, so unsure. I'm a bit stuck and getting decision fatigue.

My budget is ~500 Euro.

Help.

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[-] iceberg314@midwest.social 1 points 18 hours ago

I have one of the newer Ender 3 V3 SE models. It's pretty good actually! Very rarely have to tinker with it unlike on the older models like my Ender 3 Pro

[-] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago

You can always spend more to get more. The great thing about the Ender series is that you can get the very base model for super cheap, and parts/upgrades are also dirt cheap. So you can learn, tinker, and get into things easily.

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