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I'm sorry for who fell for the relentless marketing (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
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EDIT NOTICE: I accidentally wrote "A1 Mini" in the meme instead of just "A1" out of habit. There's no proof for the Mini to also be affected yet. My bad, sorry. It's the A1 that might burn your house down.

3-Panel meme. First: Guy coming through the door with a new 3D printer in hand, happily announcing "I bought the 3D printer I saw on Youtube!". Second: Same shot but his happy face turned upside down in shock. Third: Shit of the whole room with him still in the doorframe. It's a mess, shit is on fire, someone is reanimated on the right. Caption: "Bambu Lab Breaking the Law", "A1 Mini going up in flames" and "Community up in arms".
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[–] [S] 32 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Avoid

  • BambuLab (the usual backstabbing of big corpos)
  • Creality (recently went IPO and strongly pivoted towards AI)
  • FlashForge (also apparently AI stuff)
  • Anycubic (cheap shit)

Recommend

  • Sovol (especially for tinkerers, but bad customer support)
  • Snapmaker U1 (good price / performance)
  • Prusa (The best with a backbone and EU-based, but pricy af because of it)
  • Qidi Tech (Rather affordable, not too bad apparently)

These are my personal opinions and what I heard over the years.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I agree with your take on all of them except Anycubic, if you can get them for cheap. By that I don't mean the forever sale on their website. I started with a used anycubic that I got for less than $100.00 USD. While it does suck it let me see if I actually wanted to spend more money on this hobby or not. I'm already looking into getting a Prusa someday but for now it's enough. So there is a spot for Anycubic, it's entry level for printing curious.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Agree 100%. My first printer was a cheap Kobra 2. I had a lot of problems with it and I'm not sure if it's because of the printer or because I was changing settings without knowing what I was doing.

    At any rate, I wanted something better and didn't want anycubic, but Kobra 3 with AMS was only $299 at the time so I got one. It worked great. I started on some large printing projects and ended up getting a second one for $299 to spread the workload around.

    I have about 600 hours on both and they've both been great. I have a Snapmaker U1 but I'm going to keep using the Kobra 3s for basic prints as long as they last.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Qidi had fire issues too IIRC

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (1 child)

    AFAIK they did have some issues on the first of their 3rd gen printers, and only for 110VAC models, 230VAC models were unaffected. And they recognized the issue when it was discovered, fixed it, and shipped replacement parts for affected customers.

    The current printers you can buy from them are their 4th gen, haven't heard anything like that for these. They're technically open source, but they make their own weird forked klipper version instead of just using vanilla klipper.

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