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The quality/price of Bambu always stopped me from getting a 3D printer. Meaning - it was the best product at the best price point but I couldn't justify the walled garden. The competitors at the time were more expensive and not as good.
But that was a few years ago. What's the scene like now? Is there a comparable product to Bambu's X1 carbon (or whatever the current model is)
There are a lot of printers today that do better or similar, depending on what type of filament you are planning to print with, bambu really shine(d) (don't know about current generation) with pla especially with their own branded one. I'm currently enjoying small farm of elegoo centauri carbons, they have their own issues but print quality is similar or better to x1 or p1 when it comes to petg and nylon. For multi color there is snapmaker u1.
Ooh now we're talkin, that centauri carbon 2 bundle is about the same as the Bambu X2D base model
What are the issues with it? I see that they fully embraced open source 2 years ago
Dunno about cc2 (also I believe that it's at least 20%-30% cheaper then x2d without ams), but CC had a few software problems that they were very slow to fix. Nozzle change procedure isn't great, usb cable of the first few revisions were shitty. Current CC1 machines are good.
They aren't opensource, like at all, there is opencentauri project that only recently started to ship klipper for cc (first one).
Upd: apparently CC2 is fully open
Snapmaker U1, uses multiple toolheads for multicolor or multimaterial printing without the massive waste generated from filament switching designs like BAMBU.
Ooh that looks awesome! But I'm kinda in the same boat as before, this thing's 40% more expensive than the X2D :(
Depends on application. In my lab, these printers quickly pay for themselves. Scientific plastic is ridiculously expensive.
It'd be pure hobby use for me, nothing critical. I'm leaning toward the CC2 someone posted but I'll have to do some digging to make sure I'm not shooting myself in the foot. Fully open source is a huge selling point for me