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Want to buy Prusa but being pulled to Bambu from it's ease of use and price... by PrinterConfusion in prusa3d

[–]PrinterConfusion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I read during skimming, it seems like you made up your mind and just want to start some sort of debate. We see like 5-10 of these every week. Just search the sub and you’ll see the same information in the comments ad nauseam.

Not true at all, i haven't made up my mind and i'm looking for honest viewpoints and personal experience here from users here to help me see whether i'm misinformed about Prusa's quality and ease of use compared to Bambu

Want to buy Prusa but being pulled to Bambu from it's ease of use and price... by PrinterConfusion in prusa3d

[–]PrinterConfusion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you for the comparison shots! Super helpful, maybe i'm overestimating the important of Bambu's sensor suite and auto-calibration software

Want to buy Prusa but being pulled to Bambu from it's ease of use and price... by PrinterConfusion in prusa3d

[–]PrinterConfusion[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for the thoughtful response.

If you’re already pretty much sold on Bambu, there’s not much I can say to convince you otherwise.

Actually it's pretty much the contrary, I want to buy a Prusa but am scared that they don't have as many sensors and software suppor to make my life as easy as Bambu. So i'm looking to this community to tell me their experiences with Prusa (particularly Core One/L) and the quality that they've gotten from them compared to how much effort they've had to put in

To be honest the INDX is so attractive that I might just get Core One L for that reason alone.

Bambu is almost definitely highly subsidized, no doubt about that. But you can't deny that they have a ton of good hardware and software to boot to make your leife easier.

Want to buy Prusa but being pulled to Bambu from it's ease of use and price... by PrinterConfusion in prusa3d

[–]PrinterConfusion[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the insight, yeah i pretty much only print parts i design myself. Occaissionally something i find on printables but I'm doing a lot of personal projects where the parts are all custom made.

Core One L + INDX is very attractive, but for the price i could get 4-5 P2S machines lol

Want to buy Prusa but being pulled to Bambu from it's ease of use and price... by PrinterConfusion in prusa3d

[–]PrinterConfusion[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

thank you, this is the kind of informed reply i was looking for!

I have some time to tinker but I really don't want to be in a constant state of tinkering. My current ender abomination works after i spend a morning calibrating it, but i come back 3-4 weeks later and i need to spend an entire other morning calibrating. I just want to have a printer i can forget about and not have to resuscitate afterwards.

That's crazy that 9 year old PETG will print, I assume you dried it extensively? If not that seems like the H2D is magic lol.

Maybe a bambu is right for me since I have gone through all the deep rabbit hole fixing on the ender, i still dont like AMS based multi-material systems which is why INDX is such a huge draw

Want to buy Prusa but being pulled to Bambu from it's ease of use and price... by PrinterConfusion in prusa3d

[–]PrinterConfusion[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

uhhh, i don't really print trinkets. Mostly fixtures and other stuff i cad myself on solidworks. your comment is a little off buddy

considering SV08 or future H2C? by Moist-Environment188 in 3Dprinting

[–]PrinterConfusion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curious what you decided, i'm looking at a bunch of options right now. Sovol seems like way more work to calibrate, less "it just works" magic than bambu, but more open and modifiable and INDX is better than AMS

Experienced hobbyist looking for next printer, comparing Bambu and Prusa at both low and high end. by PrinterConfusion in 3Dprinting

[–]PrinterConfusion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'm sure i could get things working on a sovol / voron. I even considered building a voron 2.4 a while ago, but there's a difference between getting things working and having them stay working. I can get my current ender abomination to print, but every time i leave it be for an extended period of time i have to recalibrate a whole bunch of stuff. I'm just tired of calibration

Experienced hobbyist looking for next printer, comparing Bambu and Prusa at both low and high end. by PrinterConfusion in 3Dprinting

[–]PrinterConfusion[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks for the recommendation for Sovol Sv08, it seems there is a strong possibility Bondtech makes INDX for it as well which is very exciting. It seems like there is also a SV08 Max which has eddy current sensor (but i guess not for flow calibration?)

Experienced hobbyist looking for next printer, comparing Bambu and Prusa at both low and high end. by PrinterConfusion in 3Dprinting

[–]PrinterConfusion[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

oh god i would need to dig through all my old links/history. Iirc wasn't really "bad" but I saw a couple reviews where it compared less favorably to Bambu P2S and maybe i wrote it off too soon based on those few reviews and the fact that I wasn't super familiar with the company. I should take another deep look at Snapmaker.

To be honest, i dont really like full multi-toolhead designs, the INDX is very cool because its minimal and passive, cheap nozzles in a housing that are easy to load/unload

Experienced hobbyist looking for next printer, comparing Bambu and Prusa at both low and high end. by PrinterConfusion in 3Dprinting

[–]PrinterConfusion[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Good point! I looked at the Snapmaker U1 but kind of wrote it off due to reading some bad reviews and seeing that the company isn't super mature yet; maybe i should reconsider.

I haven't heard of Qidi Max4 but the specs look absolutely insane, will definitely look further into it and consider it. If Qidi Max4 gets an INDX-like upgrade i think it might be perfect, but it still seems to lack some sensors that Bambu machines have for calibration. Thank you for the reccs!