I’ve been following this company, Bambu labs, with interest and having checked out some recent reviews it seems they’ve got a compelling product which works out of the box and produces good quality prints quickly. They apparently are starting to ship their new models soon.
This sounds like some sort of ad but given the pain I’ve gone through with 3D printers in the past this looks like a great user experience.
Yes these are definitely on the radar at the moment. As we are in the middle of planning our move into the old wood shop, I think we may do a pledge drive for a new machine soon. I think either a x1 carbon, a p1p or possibly another machine as there are lots of new machines coming out at the moment. It would be nice to have a machine with non proprietary parts for the longevity, maintainence of the machine.
They do seem remarkable. We had a couple at Star Wars Celebration at the Excel. Just plonked down on our stand and started churning out parts. Creality have the K1 and K1 max coming and Qidi have the X Max 3 and others on the way. The Bambu has been around for a little while, the others are pre-order. My friend, Sam has each of these three on test. I’m waiting for his reviews. https://www.youtube.com/@TheRealSamPrentice
They are nice. I have a P1P there’s other people here who have printers from them i believe.
I’ve had a lot of issues with mine. Let’s just say when it decides to print it prints really fast and well but I don’t feel it’s reliable. and when something is wrong you can only raise a ticket to support as not much you can do phisically/electronically to it.
Droidbuilders. I had eight droids / droids in progress on display along with fellow droidbuilders from the UK and around the world. We were also delivering STEAM activities for the children upstairs making led badges, mini lightsabres and toothbrush ‘jitterbugs’ and much else.
Nice, sadly I didn’t managed to watch much of it as my girlfriend had a panel, we should have a conversation one of this days, I would love to build one
Just wanted to chip in as a P1P owner: the price premium of the X1C over the P1P is absolutely not worth it, they’re basically the same printer. There’s quite a few aftermarket parts coming out for them now so you’re not necessarily tied into buying spares from the manufacturer. I bought a 3rd party hotend that takes standard M6 threaded nozzles for mine.
Not sure if Cristian was just unlucky, but my P1P has been rock solid compared to my Ender S1 - I have barely had to do anything to it, and my print success ratio is about 95% compared to 75% on the Ender. They are extremely noisy and cause a lot of vibrations compared to other printers though - You’d want to put it in some kind of cabinet I think.
We got the X1 at work following the recommendation here from @scday94 and @Calin - pretty happy with it so far.
We’ve been buying filament from Bambu but want to consider other suppliers. Do you guys have any suggestion?
Thank you.
@Cristina I use eSun, Overture and Sunlu at home and haven’t noticed any difference in quality compared to Bambu’s filament. Box.co.uk has the best prices (5 for 69 pounds), which works out less than half the cost of Bambu’s stuff.
Hi Darren, thanks for coming back so quickly! I was reading online and eSun keeps repeating too. Are the spools of these three you use compatible with Bambu?
Most of the (1.75mm) filaments are compatible with the Bambu printer so no worries there. Their proprietary filaments have an NFC tag to automatically detect the filament type and colour, but that’s only to make it user friendly; fortunately they don’t lock you in to their stuff.
I use Overture PETG filament typically, but that’s just my preference. The cardboard spools are a bit of an issue for the AMS because it leaves cardboard dust that might clog some rollers. What I do is rip the cardboard sides out and then I have a printed spool holder that screws around the filament (it comes preloaded on the printer SD card). I only go through the effort just so I don’t throw the big plastic spool holder that comes with the other filaments.
esun pla+ is my normal go to have a nice wide range of colours if your printing 1.75 filament. Clean prints an vey little stringing. They have started doing them as spool-less refills as well now to save on the plastic waste. Only problem I have encounter is the winding using the neatest which can sometimes cause tangles.
Whilst I don’t own your specific printer, I’ve actually found that amazon is actually very solid for filament as long as you know what you’re looking for!
