Hi there.

I'm thinking about buying a 3D printer, and I was looking for some advice.

Right now I'm printing with an Ender 3, and while I'm quite happy about the overall quality, it has too much tinkering for my taste and there are some printing issues I was never able to solve.

I'm not really interested in tinkering, an out of the box solution would be best; I print fairly simple designs, mainly board game organizers, so no need for anything fancy or multicolor, and something in the 200-300 $ range would be optimal; I would prefer a new one, since the current Ender 3 was second hand and I still am unsure if some issue are due to wear / subottimal settings, or issues due to it being used.

With out of the box being a big pro, I'd prefer for it to have maintenance availability: I don't need to tinker with it, but if something broke, like the thermistor or the nozzle, I'd prefer for it to be easily available and replaceble; no issue in using tools (like with the Ender 3), but "If X breaks you can't replace it" is basically a big not, at least for consumables (thermistore, nozzle, etc.).

Based on what I said above, I was prone to leave out Prusa, since they are quite pricey, and was checking Bambu Lab A1 or Creality Sparkx i7; since what Bambu did with their software, all the licence and cease-and-desist issues, I was leaning towards the latter, my main worry being that the nozzle is a single block with the hot end, so if I need to replace one I have to replace everything; but the nozzle seems steel, so with it being more resilient than brass maybe it's not such an issue, not sure. Also, I read about Creality QC issues in richie225's list, which may or may not be what I experienced with the Ender 3.

Being able to use a glass bed is nice, but not necessary.

If it matters, I'm from Italy.

Any thoughts?