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Before someone complains about my 3D printer brand choice, Yes I know Fuck Anycubic.
I did countless hours of research, and I know they're a scummy company, but at least they flirt with being Open-Source, and for my first printer, and it being multi colour at that price, it was either this or not buying one at all.
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It's ok mate, the first printer experience I had was at university trying to coax a bricked Makerbot they had back into working... Not a fun time haha.
If you get into the hobby you won't stop at just a single printer, especially if you learn how to maintain and repair them. Then you'll be able to buy a cheap second hand one from a more open source company if that's something you want to do.
So that'd be the next thing to look into: how to maintain and repair your printer and what consumables, spare parts, and tools you need to do that.
If it's an open frame printer, have a look at building/buying an enclosure for it, perhaps with an active heating unit and carbon + HEPA filtered ventilation for the more noxious filaments.
Then after that some method of drying your filament. And either combined with or separate from the drying: air-tight storage for your filament.
Some stick glue (pritt-stick) will be useful, as will a bed scraper, an alternative to stick glue would be something like cat's vomit (a brand of a liquid glue for printer beds, there's a few alternative suppliers around)
Welcome to the hobby!
Thanks for the tips, I'll aquire some of that. Very excited to start this new hobby!!
It's cool bud. We all know what life's like right now and finding enjoyment in anything is very hard whilst having principles.
I don't have much to add except maybe an enclosure for temperature/airflow management if you're gonna print temperature sensitive filaments.
I really hope the printer works out well for you, have fun.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Anycubic is a pretty good choice compared to other options. Multi color is a bit of a gimmick imo. But it depends if you want structural prints which benefit more from enclosures, or artworks like figures which can use multi color. Then again, for 250 there's not really a high temp printer.