Prusa's answer to the Bambu and Creality models

[Redbrickman]

A very interesting new model from Prusa.

 

[tatianafrost]

A very interesting new model from Prusa.

Fully enclosed, open source, modable, prusa quality, AND price competitive to Bambu?

It may finally be time for me to purchase an official Prusa printer. Well done yall!

 

[Redbrickman]

After doing more research on it I think its not a great printer for the price but that's my opinion. There are better cheaper brands around, some with a chamber heater like the Qidi Plus 4. The Prusa isn't particularly well sealed either which is important to me to reduce VOC and fume oiutput.

 

[Artur5]

Believe me, if you want to keep your sanity, stay well away from that printer. Take a look into the Core One section of Prusa's forum and you'll see an online replica of Jerusalem's Wailing Wall.

My first printer was a Prusa MK3S-(still working fine). but after this model, they went downhill fast. Possibly the need to keep competitive prices against Bambulab and other Chinese brands forced Prusa to build machines with substandard parts, rushed clumsy designs and never ending buggy firmwares.
Out of curiosity after reading such horror stories on their forum, I browsed the assembly instructions of the printer and I was truly appalled. They saved every penny possible everywhere, but also some parts seem designed by people without any common sense. No wonder there're so much complains.
What is worse, Prusa's marketing hype nowadays is misleading and sometimes flat outright lies.

 

[Redbrickman]

I think it was a knee jerk reaction to Bambu's success and they cobbled it together as quick as possible.

If I was to buy a ready made printer any time soon it would be the QIDI Plus 4. It's by no means a perfect printer but there is a massive community on Discord similar to the Voron channel and they are doing amazing things with mods and have also released an open source firmware for the machine. The heated chamber is an attractive feature and the new QIDI box multi color system when the teething issues are solved will make it a nice machine.

 

[Nifty]

I'm really curious what's going to happen with Prusa over the years. They have a great reputation and have had good products, but I feel like the industry is changing faster than they are able (or willing?) to keep up with.

There are just too many other options these days that have better offerings and/or better prices.

 

[The Hat]

but I feel like the industry is changing faster than they are able (or willing?) to keep up with.

With all the talk of Tariffs hanging in the air, some of these printer companies are not going to survive.. Innovation is being strangled..