K1 Max

Say what you will about Prusa, but my Mini+ that is nearly 6 years old and still receives firmware updates including input shaping shows the long term value. Bambu started in 2022, I think, so it still has to prove itself long term. Not saying it isn't any good. If I wanted reliability today VS my C

Love my A1. Yes it's a closed ecosystem, but so is Apple, and the iPhone is doing just fine. The A1 is an unbox, auto calibrate and start printing printer. I get why people don't like the company, but their printers just work. I also have an H2D and a Creality K1 Max. I don't even use the K1 much an

My K1Max drilled a square in my plate at the start of a gridfiinty bin print. Luckily I stopped it doing what happened to yours. Also under warranty. Last I heard from Creality was they will replace the "strain gauge and adjustment plate". Not the build plate though as it is older than 3 months and

I just went through all these same issues with my k1 max upgrade. So many small changes needed from ptfe tube, orca slicer printer codes, new cfs extruder and cut module, and cfs feeder/splicer jamming and feeding wrong. Finally still working 80% of the time with Minor ghost feeding and retracting w

Coming out a a Creality k1 max I picked up an a1 mini from a friend as I wanted to see if it was as good as people make them out to be. Yep. I have a P2S and it’s a great machine. To be fair I also have a Core One which has been great as well. The amount of hours I wasted on troubleshooting that Cre

Qidi seems like they're still figuring things out, especially design wise. Due to my experiences with Creality (12 heavily modified Ender 3s + K1 Max), and watching them rush printers to the market to seem like they can compete with Bambu.... It would take something really special for me to ever eve

Yeah my own. Its a Creality K1 Max with some tweaks to keep it running ok. Its a bit dated by now. You mostly just need a printer with a 30x30x30 build volume (estimated, ill measure everything up later). So slightly on the larger side. Or break it up in more pieces yourself if you have a smaller pr

I can see why you have frustrations. Both my K1M’s had 2k+ print hours before I started modding them. Tuning took a while on them before modding, but once dialed in - print results were great. Modding is a black hole that I may never climb out of - I’ve tried 6-7 different hotends, BCJ linear rail s

I second almost all of these points. I ordered my C1L from PrintedSolid and liked that it was assembled in the US. Got it last week which was a 3 week delivery time so they beat the 4-6 weeks lead time they had posted. I can’t compare to a bambu labs machine, I don’t like their cloud restrictions so

Done for the night, backported mainline sweeper code, kalico quality of life adjustments.... and if you know what your looking at in the console, you know lol had to create a separate .py to house the smooth shapers from bleeding edge, a separate worker thread to keep them and reduce the resolution