buying advise 3D printer

[pharmacist]

Hello everybody,

Having alot of experience with 2D printers the last decades, I want to enter the world of 3D printers. Any tips about a good 3D printer that I can buy, using good aftermarket filament, heated versus non-heated beds, ease of cleaning of the printer, sound production, fitting on narrow IKEA Kallax (d: 37 cm), closed system. Not sure this is a good printer:

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Bambu Lab P1S 3D Printer​

Many thanks for the input.

 

[Artur5]

WARNING : You're about to open a deadly can of worms. Think twice (or thrice ) before entering into the 3Dworld, a land of no return.
I did the fatal mistake four years ago and, believe me, there's no cure once you're bitten by this bug...

 

[Artur5]

My first printer was a Prusa, still on good working order, but I won’t recommend any of their current models,
The reasons aren’t easy to explain in a few words but if I were starting now on 3D printing, I’d pass on Prusa,
Bambulab is the big name these days but I don’t like their business model, Proprietary software, dubious customer support, compulsory icloud account, etc..
So, my recommendations are what I wouldn’t buy instead of what I’d buy.
Of course, that’s just me. Thousands, even millions of users sure do love like their Bambulabs, Prusas or Crealitys.

If you’re totally new on 3D, don’t commit yourself too soon to a certain brand or model until you know more about 3D printers.
Take your time on Internet browsing forums until you get a better idea of how 3D printers work, how they’re build, what is a slicer, hotend, extruder, heatbreak, etc.

P.S.
My former message wasn’t totally a joke, not when I think of how much I’ve spent on this thing the last years..

 

[The Hat]

Many thanks for the input.

Of all the printers I have bought in the last 8 years, Creality have been for me the best, they make small as well as large printers so look at what they got and pick one.. Or go to some other brand, in a nut shell a 3D printer is a 3D printer and it will get you hooked whichever you choose very quickly..

You have to be born before you can learn to crawl, so burn your fingers on something small !

As far as advice is concerned, for me I like to stay away for these printer forums because everyone has their own agenda, loves / hates are expected, but some comments are downright nasty and not worth considering..

The best 3D forum I found was right here on Nifty, because nobody has an axe to grind and all advice is given in good spirit, my level of competence is all down to Nifty members advice and they have never steered me wrong, originally Rob got me started..

 

[x64]

I've had some experience with both Bambu Lab and Creality, personally would go with Creality for a cheap learning experience for understanding the printer, troubleshooting upgrading etc. You will be learning about Flow Rate, Pressure advance, Z offset, calibrating extruders and more. And there's plenty of substantial hardware upgrades to install.

Bambu Lab printers on the other hand are great if you want to just buy a machine and print reliably, but don't care much about tweaking parameters or pushing the limit. Most things are preset properly especially if you use their filaments. You can obviously tweak things yourself but that's not really what the product is intended for.

But beyond the big names there is plenty of DIY projects out there that make a better printer or push the limits in different ways. If you can follow an advanced guide, have some assembly experience and free time those are great projects. When starting fresh like you I would look there, as you'll be building everything yourself and learn and know everything about the machine. Watch some video's on Youtube showing the current up to date lineup of available projects.