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Since Bambu Lab just shit the Heatbed, what Printers should I get for a Print Farm-esc Setup? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/3dprinting

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I've been using my Bambu P1S Combo for roughly 2 Months now and have been loving it. I liked its User Friendliness, Speed, Quality and Reliability so much, that I wanted to get a second P1S Combo for all Multi colour stuff and then go on to try the A1 Series for Mono Colour Prints in a planned small Size Print Farm...

Needless to say, Bambu shit the heatbed so hard with its recent changes that I can no longer support them, leaving me to wonder what printers hit the same Notes that I liked and mentioned above.

One Printer I've been curious about since I joined this hobby was the Ankermake M5. If what I heard is true, then it would make for the perfect Monocolour printer as it would allegedly hit all above mentioned points... especially considering I could go for Refurbished models for half the price, only 260€ which seems endlessly enticing...

Thoughts? What are some other options? I especially could need a reccomendation for an enclosed Multi Colour Printer with P1S quality... as for price wise I am very open and flexible honestly. I'm kinda just curious what options there are in general nowadays!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (15 children)

So pricey, and their core xy just came out. Prusa doesn't have the best track record with their initial releases.

I love my mk3 but I wouldn't buy a prusa right now.

I'm In a similar boat to op, I don't feel there's a good solution right now. The creality k2+ and qidi plus 4 are worth looking at, but they're also fairly new and not well proven yet.

I'm tempted to take the plunge and finally build a voron 2.4

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Forget Creality, Prusa is worth the price for a print farm. OP is looking for workhorses, not poorly supported jank. Have you ever tried to get support from them? It's a fucking dumpster fire.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you have a farm you've got spare parts on hand and you're not relying on support.

I agree on creality though, I've owned a few and I'm skeptical but people really like their new one.

[–] brightandshinyobject 1 points 2 weeks ago

The k1max was my first. It had its share of issues but as someone who wanted to learn it was good to you build a baseline understanding. It was one of the first wave of productions that had some issues. My K1C and second K1Max only have user caused issues.

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