Was looking purchasing one from Jaycarto get started into 3D printing and noticed this was on sale with coupon code on eBay. From what I can see no eBay plus required and free delivery.
Features:
CR-Touch for easy bed levelling
Nozzle temperature: up to 260°C
Filament compatibility: PLA, PETG, TPU
Heated bed: up to 100°C
Typical printing speed: 180mm/s
Extruder: Sprite direct drive
Build volume: 220x220x250mm
Thanks!
+1 for Siddament as well
Their PLA prints the best out of everything I've tried and pricing is great.
Jayo/Sunlu are regular participants in the eBay coupon sales (like monthly) so just wait it out till the next one like Airjo coffee or Ozito/Workzone tool batteries.
they just have less colour range and are sometimes out of stock of the basics like white/black.
Dang that’s cheap if you don’t mind tinkering
there's really not much tinkering at all, two friends got these as their first printer and were able to get printing without much assistance.
The things I went through with them were mainly slicing settings which will apply to all printers.
Set mine up from previous deal, was printing in 20 mins. It all works well, and coming from the original Ender 3, it's very much an upgrade.
Now that Ender 3 was certainly a 'tinkerers paradise' and I won't miss bed levelling ever.
i upgraded from an E3 and yeah 100% i share your sentiment, this was SOO easy!
Yeah completely different machines now. I still have made a few mods though:
@impoze: Can you provide more info on the noise reduction? I have an ender 3 clone (popular here on ozb, can't remember the brand) but it's pretty loud, even more so when it's starting up!
@Benjamin7711: which model specifically do you have?
Most noise reduction is swapping out the hotend & cooling fans for better quieter fans like Sunon maglevs or Winsunn dual ball bearings. These typically also require printing out a new shroud.
Other way will just to put them into an enclosure
i got this printer through the jay car sale. can't believe how cheap this sale is as i paid $50 more.
What slicing settings are you referring to? Keen to learn.
*eye twitches
You'll be proud to know I finally committed to a printer. Nabbed the K1C off their eBay store for $600. It's for the lil one's bday present in September so now the box is just taunting me. What tinkering do you speak of?
Probs should set it up to test it *cough
Nah should be fine
It’s just a joke on the meme of bambu users saying it jUsT WoRkS haha (but it does, love my a series printers) - and my cr6se can go burn in the fires
$600 for k1c is decent - I can’t even buy it at wholesale at anywhere close to that 🤣
great price for the K1C, was with 20% codes?
Much more refined over the K1. K2 has been announced with their version of AMS called "CFS", due to ship in September. Apparently they'll be making upgrade kits to use it with the K1 series.
Wouldn't mind a K1 Max
Yeh was at the time of the 20% off codes, I submitted an offer of $800 then used the code so was pretty happy with it, got a couple months to buy filaments and get everything ready to go, as for AMS/CFS, had no idea what this was but pretty cool news if we can upgrade the K1C to it. If I'm reading correctly means being able to use multiple filaments at once? Lil guy showed me a Youtube reel just this morning of a 3D Printed Charizard that had multiple colours and asked if ours would be able to do similar so the timing is perfect haha.
@MBix: yeah multicolour, there is still just a lot of wasted filament that gets purged every time it changes.
I've got a few Pokemon printed from this guy on Printables
@MBix: you also might find some that are multipart prints and then glued together for assembly like this Bowser from Mario
Had one as my second printer for about 6 months now, and in fact, not a lot of tinkering (if at all really) the only thing i would note is to change the PEI sheet to something else as it's extremely sticky (like i know adhesion is good, but it destroys prints, it's that sticky) so consider a 3rd party sheet and it's great.
I ran a nebula kit on this and it kept getting Y axis layer shifts, could not fix it no matter what i did, so keep it stock is my advice, ive reverted her to full stock and prints like a champ!
YMMV of course :)
Strange you had Y axis layer shifts, I'm running mine on klipper and it's been working great.
I've also since set up my old Anycubic Mega S on Klipper and it's printing better than ever, after doing a few Orca Slicer calibrations and tuning PA & retraction settings in Klipper.
Yeah i honestly could not figure it out for the life of me, it happened as soon as i did the acceleration calibration its like the stepper didn't like the new values or whatever.
In any case, yeah, i know klipper is great, not knocking that for sure, i run klipper on my other machines. :)
You have said this on every post lately. Give it a rest.
Block me if you don’t want to see it, champ.
Thought it would be tiring for you to say 'oh you have to tinker with it, spaghetti this, buy a printer 3-5x the price,etc', and have people that actually own it say that's not the case in multiple posts.
Block me if you can't handle someone replying to you.
That's a great price. Bought one about 3 months ago for $269 (which was on sale), been very happy with it.
it was as low as $175 recently, and $185 after that.
Was it posted here for $175, $185?
Must have missed it.
sorry, it was $187.50 and short lived, a stacking of Jaycar's 20% off sitewide that was available for a few hours before. They had it at the $249 sale price.
@impoze: I swear you must have been one of the only lucky ones on ozbargain for that cheeky double stack
@Jimothy Wongingtons: yeah, been printing everyday now.
Have an army of pokemon ready to paint in school holidays for the kids.
Good printer for the price, running great on klipper with pressure advance, wifi, crowsnest for webcams but even for beginners stock firmware is still good.
If you have a bit more budget, definitely still consider the Bambu printers that are currently on sale.
Any thoughts on how the Bambu A1 mini compares to the Ender 3 VE or VK? So torn between these 3..will be my 1st printer ever
The good thing about the SE is the low price point, every increment brings you closer to Bambu which will give you a more finished product.
The KE is still a decent printer though so it's just preference.
I own both. The A1 mini is perfect if you want to 'print things' and your hobby is the things themselves and not the printer. The Ender 3 is great if you want to 'tinker with things' and your hobby is 3D printers and making them work, tuning them, etc. Both are fun pursuits in their own way.
I have enjoyed years of tinkering, but now with a child and work and life, I get far more enjoyment from my minimal spare time with the A1 Mini and printing useful things. Fast.
Oh and the Bambu printers are closed source, if that matters to you.
Thank you! As much as I love tinkering, Id prefer to just print stuff when I need something. Got plenty of stuff around the house to keep me going with my tinkering hobby!
@Talla: It's worth noting that the A1 mini has a smaller printable area, at 180mm. This is not an issue in 95% of cases in my experience, but I do have a larger printer there when needed. But, that is simply almost never for my use case. In fact, I prefer the compact size of the A1 mini in my office.
@ThanksOP bought X: no, all that these new printers have in common with the old tinker boxes is the 'Ender 3' name, because they are all i3 cartesian bed sligners.
You can get great results out of the box with these printers with auto levelling addressing one of the main culprits of failed prints due to bad first layers.
I'm honestly not sure why everyone seems to assume that you need to 'tinker' with Ender printers.
Impose above has confirmed the opposite from his experience and I own the KE, and have not tinkered at all.
Not sure what is being implied as 'tinkering', to be fair. You can add lots of upgrades to the Enders but I wouldn't class that as tinkering in this context because the term implies you need to tinker to get it working.
@bboz: From what I gather, on previous Enders you had to tinker to get it to work. Perhaps people are just repeating the brand reputation rather than considering individual printer models.
Do Creality printers need to be bought from them directly or authorised resellers? Got some sellers on ebay selling the Ender 3 Ke for 303 atm too.
other sellers are ok, that's a decent buy for a KE at $300 but if I'm going to be spending that much I would just go the extra for A1 AMS
Also another to look out for is the new Anycubic Kobra 3 Combo at $449 USD so around $680 AUD.
At the Bambu sale price though, it's not worth going for and sticking with the tried A1 AMS combo.
Their AMS is called "ACE" which also acts as a filament drying box.
More reviews are dropping now, not quite as refined yet, but I'm sure compatibility with Orca slicer will be added soon.
I'm looking at something around this price point to print minis for my kids D&D games. Is this something that this printer can handle well, or am I better off just buying them off other people who have printed them for a few dollars each?
it depends, do you have some links to see what they are doing?
Resin SLA printing is more suited for miniatures, but it's a different ball game with the post processing & clean up since you're dealing with chemicals. The detail you get on small prints is insane though.
These printers are still capable of printing out minis though at smaller layer heights.
Consider going for the A1 mini if you just want to print miniatures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw2BuLw9hNE
Something like this is what I was looking at. I've got no more detail than that, and I can't see close enough to tell if that's actually what they will look like, or whether they've made them look better than they are.
Great price, yep, those are FDM and you can also get all those files from the Brite mini patreon - https://www.patreon.com/BriteMinis
@impoze: Thanks, I really appreciate the input. It's been a long time since I've played D&D and my kids are slowly getting into hero kids, hence why I'm looking at options.
I'll get some of these minitures initially, but if I wanted to print them long term would you suggest the A1 mini?
@Phoenixzeus: yeah, if you are just planning to print miniatures, the A1 mini would do great, if you plan to print out bigger than the 180x180, the A1 is also a great choice with the AMS currently on sale.
Thanks OP, Bought 1
Whats the speed of printing these days?
Has it shortened more with improved tech?
much, much faster than the old days, plus advancements in slicer tech.
@Talla where's the KE listing for $303?
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/204715619707?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mk…
Coupon code PLUSF22 (ebay plus members)
that's quite a good deal too
Hmm that's almost worth replacing my 3 v2 for while I save for a big beasty. I hate my little bastard
If I had a V2, I would just set that up with Klipper and make the bigger jump up to a new gen CoreXY (with or without an AMS)
Its on Klipper, its just been a dog
definitely a hard limit on speed, but it's good to pump out gridfinity baseplates or other boring bits hah
I’m getting $228?
looks like they have raised the start price from $249,
try make an offer for under $249
“Your offer has been rejected”
They have just jacked the price up by $20 - now listed as $269 (not $249). Discounted price now comes out as $228.
That's pretty bloody rude.
$218.39 with Plus or $223.99 without Plus from here:
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/204715675260?itmmeta=01J16F2JR0B…
Found a couple more from resellers. $208 here https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/404038267452?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mk…
and here
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/134355968463?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mk…
first one is o/s and second has one left.
I've posted the KE as a deal, as for a bit more you do get some decent upgrades. The price difference is probably only around $80 as I consider the PEI bed as essential which is around $15.
Must be selling quick due to the price!
Here's another in stock at $208
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/266597269970?itmmeta=01J16J8CRMB…
now we need more affordable 3d scanners in addition to learning CAD
I wouldn't buy any other printer but bambu atm until the rest catch up. Why waste your time on the printer ? Spend time on printing!
This is them catching up. 10 minutes out of the box and printing.
Still not as easy from click to print with makerworld but I think it's good to know how to slice files, and that is a process for all printers.
Thanks! Any good deals on the Filaments?