K2

I'm on my 5th Printer and my last two are Creality K2 and the Bambu P2S. I've been a tinkerer all my life and now I'm older and I just want things to work. The Bambu P2S is now my favorite for how simple things are and their ecosystem is pretty slick. If I was to start over I'd get a Bambu then buy

My personal opinion, the K2 series is okay...I added microswiss hotend and r3men bed (stock was a taco). Now keep in mind that k2plus was a preorder model. Over 2000hrs on it. Plus4 is absolutely amazing at every material I've thrown at it stock, has all the creature comforts and pretty much no VFA.

It's leagues beyond your old Neptune but it's definitely on the "fiddle with it" side of the reliability curve for modern printers. Have a look at the Creality and K2 Plus subreddits to see what I mean. Taco beds, broken extruders, etc. I returned mine after a few weeks of wildly inconsistent first

I had a similar thing happen to me on my Creality K2 Pro that was less than 2 months old. Creality's customer service and shipping were horrible, and it took MONTHS to receive all the parts. I had to do an insane amount of tinkering and teach myself basic parts engineering to get my machine back up

k2 se is the biggest pain in my ass next to my neptune 4 max. cz2768 error codes. bed plate impaling itself into the nozzle and dragging the pei plate warping the bed. having to reflash, quite often to reset it from error codes yea it doesnt have warranty creality sending me parts but. with out Sfw

There multiple DIY open source multi color units you can build you buy all the steel parts and motors as a kit on alli exspress and you print all the printable parts it is fairly cheep to build but then there is the configuration and calculations and there is no straight forward instructions on how

Creality printers, even the K2, are like buying a project car. Sure, you CAN get them to do amazing things, but the effort and learning curve are brutal. Constant tinkering, tweaking and modifying it until it eventually doesn't even resemble an Ender thst still doesn't print reliably.