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Bambu Labs is openly hostile towards the 3D-printing community. I am surprised people let it come this far and didn't immediately shun this company the moment they first locked down their printers.
I think they only got away with it because they managed to produce a product at a low price that out performs almost everything in print quality and speed. If they were at the same speed and quality as everyone else they would have flopped immediately with their lack of open source respect.
according to every cunt on YouTube who got paid to review one. Props to Bambu for understanding how to market bullshit to 3D printer customers.
As these 3D printer laws trickle in, you soon will have every print scanned on Bambu's server to prevent you from printing repro parts or copyright models.
Speaking from over a dedcade of 3D printing experience, this is kind of a ridiculous point.
Bambu's printers are easier to set up out of the box than most other brands, tend to have less ongoing troubleshooting, has a more clean and easily accessible mobile app, and the print quality is also just better in some instances. Plus, their cost is incredible.
My first 3D printer was an easy to set up out of the box, no tinkering required, and it had horrible print quality, could only use one color at a time, and the bed adhesion was awful. I upgraded to a Creality printer, and it promptly permanently scratched the glass bed, and refused to ever level properly even with the addition of an auto-leveling module made by Creality themselves. (then made a squeaking noise I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to solve)
I got an A1 Mini, and while it has had its problems with various different troubleshooting steps I've had to do, most of the troubleshooting was either costless, covered under warranty, or cheap relative to the cost of replacement parts for a similar fix on other printers. The print quality is flawless, it's cheap, it can switch colors, it supports basically every material of filament easily with no tinkering, the nozzle is incredibly easy to switch, and the bed adhesion is way better.
That's not to say other brands don't have better offerings now, but I think it's kind of ridiculous to claim Bambu's printers are bad. They're cheap, reliable, easily accessible to newbies, and produce good quality prints at the same time.
Thats fair. I have never used one of their printers. But I have seen prints from them and they are impressive considering the people showing them to me had just started printing and did nothing to dial in anything.
There were fast printers before Bambu with minimal setup. I have two delta printers that just work every day.
They should be shunned for their latest model, which advertises two extruders, but the second extruder uses a Bowden tube. Why- so they can sell an upgraded model in 6 months. Bullshit like this is why people dumped Creality.