I’m thinking of entering this world for the first time, and I was wondering if there are any models that you feel you would particularly recommend, thanks to anyone who would like to share their experience!

  • Owl@mander.xyz
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    4 days ago

    If you don’t want to have a second hobby as a 3D printer maintainer (which is totally fine if you like to thinker and calibrate print-settings) then Bambulab printers are really good (if you have pets, buy an enclosed one)

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      3 days ago

      Is the hobby printing, or what you want to do with the print?

      This was the question posed to me, and I went with the latter which lead me to Bambulabs (pre-shenanigans).

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      4 days ago

      As a house with 3 dogs and 2 cats, it’s not a real problem. Sometime a quick wipe is needed, but the critters ain’t going to interfere with any printing.

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        4 days ago

        That’s what I thought too at first, then I forgot the door open once when I went to the toilet and when I came back I found one of my cats very closeling inspecting the moving toolhead heated up at 200°C pushing out molten plastic

        And it’s still annoying to clean the printer before each use

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        3 days ago

        IDK if you heard about Bambu’s enshittification, an alternative that’s very similiar in price and design is Qidi.