Bambu has done a lot of things right. They took the best from the 3D printing community and got serious in developing a consumer unit. I have a Voron 2.4 and I like it because I love to tinker on the machine BUT I do need a reliable machine, day in day out to print stuff. So... and for this price? Well, adios to 3/4 of the other manufacturers out there who didn't take this industry seriously. This will definitely expand the printing community.

I appreciate the honest perspective. Thank you. I would like to see an Eiffel Tower that maximizes the Z Height to see what happens with the speed and accuracy. I did back the KickStarter.

As you know, I have one and also backed the Kickstarter. I think it's gonna be a game changer in our world! Manufacturers are going to have to start changing and Maybe we will stop seeing the same old printer over and over. Maybe it will make them take the time to develop something new, like Bambu Lab did!

I'm reminded of Angus' words about 3D printing, in that he believes that "plug and play" is the key to this hobby going mainstream. Tinkering, adjusting, calibrating, and scraping failed prints off the bed more often than happily removing completed prints is what is keeping this hobby from "breaking through." All the Kickstarter warnings are valid, but from what I've seen of this machine (and Anker's), the "plug and play" simplicity of them are really huge steps in the right direction. As someone who backed this campaign, I would love to see how it handles a multi-material print of something like the Dead Man's Tale rifle from Destiny 2, or a complicated mech at a large-ish scale like something from Gundam, Armored Core, or Code Geass.

JOEL WAS YELLING! I appreciate both your honesty and enthusiasm. I'm new to everything 3D Printing, and this is the first Kickstarter launch for a 3D Printer I have experienced (10,000 tech ones in the past, of course).

I think we need to see how the color purging compares to other machines. Efficiency of this method is compared to purge blocks. Also that purge poop looks like it could be used as packing peanuts!

Total thanks!! for speaking so clearly about the good, the not so good, and the risks. This is another way to express the respect you have for your passion, your work and your audience.

It’s amazing to see where Bambu is now! Literally one of the best printers money can buy and absolutely crushing it in the market

Love the honesty and KS warnings! All the other videos I’ve seen of this printer are like omg this is amazing back it no matter what!

Glad to see this machine covering new ground! I'd love to see Joel test how far we can reduce the purge waste while maintaining decent color separation. It's great that the filament purged is configurable. But if the default values are already already close to optimal, that would be important to know. Otherwise some may have unreasonable expectations about how much they can reduce that purge waste. And lastly, can waste be reduced further through purge-to-model techniques where a second model is used as a purge block?

Joel, I pledged but keep considering pulling out. I have a very similar view on Kickstarter as what you presented. As to what I'd like to know more about, mixed material would be great? Using PETG as PLA supports (or visa versa), using TPU as the outer skin of a PETG model (since PETG and TPU should bond). These are the things that interest me. I am a bit torn between this and a Prusa XL

Thank you for the rant Joel. I think more people need to hear it! I am glad you showed the tech but talked about review units vs actual ones being shipped. Thank you for referencing the issues regarding pre-order vs KS as well. Great video sir!

Rememeber folks, The Kodama Obsidian had all its ducks in a row...untill it didn't and people lost their money. Michaell Husmann ran away with over a million bucks. Kickstarter, Never again.

Thank you, I am happy to wait to buy it the normal way even if a bit more expensive

I used to back a lot of Kickstarter projects (well over 100 in all). These days, I back one or two a year and not the expensive ones. Here are the ways things can turn out: 1. You can lose your money and nothing gets delivered. This is real. It has happened to me multiple times. Sometimes the person running the project will contact their backers and apologize for failing. Other times they just go silent and you never hear from them again. 2. You get a product that is clearly a beta test product and not really ready for prime time. 3. You get a product that is OK, but the company eventually fails or changes business focus. All vendor support ends. 4. The Kickstarter project is a complete success and you receive a good product. The company goes on the build version 2 of the product and sell it to consumers at large. You are stuck with version 1 while everyone else has the new and improved version. In most instances, it is better to wait for the product to hit the regular consumer market.

thank you for an honest comment on this. I came from another site that felt they were selling the product.

I want to point out that KickStarter has actually updated how it handles it's "fundraisers". You actually AREN'T charged until the kickstarter meets the funding goal and it's actually ended. So, if they cancel then you're still fine because they shouldn't have charged you at all. Just wanted to make sure people were aware of this incase they were nervous about backing the KickStarter for the printer! :P

So glad Joel continues to carry the 3D Printing Torch of Interest, others have fallen off, Joel still shows the day 1 passion 🤙👍

Awesome video. Can you Print something at the highest quality at normal printer speed and compare it to your best printer. Example being Prusa vs X1?

Well done.

These guys at Bambu Lab are doing great things for home consumer 3d printing. This at the end of the day is a core xy with klipper implementation out of the box with a couple proprietary features. Most people don't know eletrotechnolochy and what a raspberry pi is, so they only hear about these things. Now give me a cut down x1, not enclosed, not closed sourced and more affordable in times of oncoming inflation. I dunno, if they pull this off they can come to the budget market and get them off i3 clones for another 5 years. Thanks Joel, for such a big channel your still straightforward which I appreciate!

I backed it, EB carbon combo #159 I know it can be fast, but I would love to see what the max quality could be if you take your time with the slicer. And vasemode would be nice, too!

That lidar could be interesting if they open up the software access.. analysis of dimensions, etc?

Joel thanks for the honest review. I've experienced Kickstarters that have varied from "Above and beyond fulfillment" to "Burned to a crisp" so I share your skeptical view of the platform. Now the Bambu looks extremely promising, the best comparison I can come up with (and one I've been waiting for a release) is the Prusa XL, these machines have a similar core design of multi filament printing with vastly different implementation of said design. Difference in MSRP price points of both machines is huge, with the Bambu being way lower. The possible expandability of the Bambu up to 12 color/material (or was it 16, I forgot already), puts the Prusa XL max of 5 to shame. Not going to ramble on to much, if the Bambu produces what they claim, the other big names in 3D printers are going to have to step up their game plans.

*_I believe the Bambu Lab 3D printer will be the Tesla of 3D printers. It will get a bunch of 3D makers to up their game quickly or get left behind._*

This printer is going to change the game!

I'm glad you got one to play with. I'm experiencing bad customer service from Bambu Lab so far. After 9 days of numerous emails and an opened service ticket I still get a run around "scripted" responses from Bambu Lab about my returned package since I wasn't home to sign for it. All I need to know was if they could redeliver so I can plan my works accordingly but can't seem to get an answer to it. I think they outsourced their customer service to a remote third parties so all I got were scripted answers to a simple question. Bad customer experience with Bambu Lab so far.

I take my hat off for Sr., what a great review, honest and dynamic, haven’t check the status 6 months after but I’m in love with this machine but if not available that gives me a tremendous guide to choose another one accordingly, I wish your able to keep your good work forever.

I would love to see not just multi PLA but PLA/TPU/PVA/Nylon or w/e combo you can push it to do. That is where the value will be found for me.

I, personally, would like to see it's capabilities in printing carbon fiber based filaments and flexible filaments such as the Filaflex line from Recreus (they make specialized tpu filaments that are solvent/fuel resistant). Especially since it's a proprietary hotend system.

These are the types of video that build your integrity and trust in the community while producing very good and entertaining content! Thank you!

Considering most of the engineers and such are project leads from DJI I would have a high confidence in all maters of this printer.

It sounds like an absolutely fabulaous machine.... but I have two main concerns: 1. It's packed with features, which on the surface might sound fantastic, but the more things it has, the more things can go wrong. I'd be concerned with reliability over the long term. 2. How are they able to offer a super advanced printer like this for such a low price? Printers from other manufacturers with less than half of what this one is offering cost 2x to 3x the price. Something doesn't add up. If they're losing money on the machine, they need to make it up somewhere else. My concern would be, where? Don't get me wrong, I want this to live up to the hype, but I'm remaining skeptical for time being until the Kickstarter is over and it's been time-tested.

Great overview and for hitting some important points. A fair mount of text below (as I've become infamous for) I have had small chats with people, but have also written probably more in comments on livestreams about this printer more then any other. A fast printer is ideal. A high quality/accurate printer is a necessity. A feature rich printer is ideal. A user friendly printer is often overlooked (though I know I've been saying that for years to friends, and I know I'm not the only one who's said that). And a well priced for what it can do printer is a cherry on top. This printer meets all of those points. So is it the perfect Sunday or a fake? "Um, people print with it" yes, but auto makers build concept cars. Game devs produce game demos. Software engineers produce PoC (proof of concepts). They all work. They all can be used by people. Some even do demonstrative production runs in the thousands... But a key thing I've said many times now, and I doubt I'm the first (I'll settle for a tie :P), but have otherwise only heard from Joe (Breaks n' Makes) and Joel: we need to see what the actual shipping machines are like first before holding them up as a beacon. For all we know, they'll burn through their equity and KS money before they can ship to everyone... or it will be used up before they can do anything else, leaving it a one trick pony. If they pull it off, they'll set a new bar for what is expected of printers. I expect Prusa and a couple others will be able to match them. But many will not (and one person who I interact with in the know has already said there's a handful of printer manufacturers nervous with this machine). I like many things they've done and want them and others to go further. I do software and have increasingly grown to believing that many in the community have tried to hardware solution their way out of printer progression and resolving issues. Just look at how many assumed the front decorative bezel of the Ender 7 was important. More 2020s! More cross bars! Thicker steel! Linear rails! Heatsinks! You know... maybe what the printer needs is just better software. Better: maybe people need to stop looking down upon the relative few who work on the firmware, slicers, etc. for 3D printers. I wrote a ton in a comment on the VOD of Breaks n' Makes unboxing of the X1 and don't want to make one as big. I like where they're going, want to see things go further, agree with a friend who said "we need to move past standardized parts to build a printer and look at purpose built ones" though I feel there needs to be a certain amount of standardization (it's kinda why humanity become as industrious as it is: standardized interchangeable parts) but not on everything. Not everything needs to be a 2020 extrusion. They use smooth rods instead of linear rails (I have not found a single person say "would be better with linear rails" this whole time... even though that's said for so many other printers). If the deliver, it will be on my list of printers to mention when someone is looking for recommendations. But their are plenty of other outcomes (deliver but never improve, deliver but it exists as the sole machine they make, get purchased by some company and then buried and never seen again, not deliver in one or more areas, etc.) But if anything: make this feature set a floor. It has filament runnout, flex bed, and ABL so it meets my requirements for a modern printer... but what will be next if we start from here instead of another clone or single-slightly-improved feature on a known printer? Also, please stop using Kickstarter for pre-orders, I know they don't seem to care but a much larger proportion of their site is used as it should, so an outlier of the site is ignored by them.

I feel like this printer is given more credit than it's due. It is impressive! But everything except the lidar has been done before. The X1's real triumph is to integrate a bunch of tech voron modders are already using in a way that feels seamless and user friendly, with no assembly. We've seen fast, good quality prints from enthusiests all over the community. And most of what is here in the bambu can be found in the modding communitty. It's essentially a well tuned custom voron out of the box. It has the wall mounted extra part cooling like 24/7 printing or Fail Faster, it has triple lead screws like the trident/ratrig. Most of the cloud functionality is right from klipper or octoprint. THe ams is the same as a pallette or any other similar mmu's that have been around for years. Input shaper has been around. Calibrating pressure advance has been around. To me that is the thing that is impressive is ease of use. Not the speed, not the leveling, not the print quality, or any of the other tech. The accessibility for all those things is the killer feature. They've taken power user features and made them apple-like in their implimentation. And if the kickstarter success is any indication, it's going to be a gold mine for them if they can really dleiver it. I gotta say, I'm totally unimpressed with the AMS. It is just a wastful approach to multi material, compared to toolchangers or IDEX. It seems like a really well made version of hat type of material changer, but the approach is just not worth it in 2022 IMO.

Would be nice to see every type of filament testedon this.ABS ,TPU included.

I'd love to see TPU prints with this (I understand already that you can't use the AMS for this material)!

On one hand, wow! I want one. On the other hand, now I really have my work cut out for me. Truly impressive.

Would love to see how the Lion model from years ago would look being printed on something so fast. 🤔🤔🤔

Looks great, I want one. Let me know when they're on Amazon, I refuse to do business on Kickstart

i purchased this bad boy the other day :) iam super hyped! also purchased the textured PEI plate for the printer since it won't come in the box.

This video is basically Me: Throwing money at the screen Joel: NOOOOOO DONT DO THAT !

Finally! Was waiting for this video!

I fully agree with the cautionary tale about kickstarters. But to be fair Tested has now made a test of this product 11 months later after this video's release and the company has moved on from the kickstarter phase and it has become a legit proper company now. They also appear to have been working really hard to fix all the issues people pointed out with the printers through firmware updates. It really looks like a trustworthy company now.

Absolutely sold on this machine. I'm buying one as soon as I can. I've thoroughly customized my Ender 3 Pro but it will never be at this level. I have a small business selling 3d printed items so this printer will absolutely make my life a lot easier.

I'm excited by this machine, seems like it's a genuine move forward after so many low end machine copy's and so many higher end machines like voron. With this in the middle. Just a shame about lack of linear rails. But no way I'm backing kickstarter with that much money, will give it a few months and see what production reviews are like as well as software development.

TEST THE PRINTERS CAPABILITIES! Print at LUDICOUS speed! Push this printer to it's limits and see where it fails. Also I would love to see how much waste filament you could reduce in the slicer. 3DPrintbeginner weighs out the purge tower and "chips" that are spit out the back. It's rather sad how much filament is wasted. Thanks for this video Joel. Love your stuff.

Me: I have no reason to even visit Kickstarter. I have a perfect Prusa that just won't quit. I love printing things on it. Also Me: Enrolled in the Kickstarter.

I’m super curious. I haven’t seen anyone print a model that required supports yet. How does it do with manual supports and tree supports?

Was able to get in a pledge for an Early Bird X1 Carbon Combo

Order some gst3d filament - It's prone to clogging, horribly (like dirt pebbles horrible)... but it's some of the cheaper filament people buy in bulk. I wanna know how the nozzle holds up to clogs and how the process goes to change it. As well...how prone is it to clogging with bad filament, will you be making a custom nozzle in a short period of time, or never.

Really appreciate the way you explained the Kickstarter and investment background. You're the only one that really highlighted some aspects of this launch that were important to discuss. I'm curious if this thing can handle... Slow printing... I use polypropylene, which is notorious for warping when printing large parts. It's also a pain when printing fast. The best I can do on an ender 3 s1 pro with my custom enclosure set to 35C is about 35mm/s with 250mm/s2 acceleration and a tiny tiny amount of coasting in cura to reduce stringing. No one KZfaq's about polypropylene, but it's a fantastic material. Wondering if you could try it out.

Between these big launches of the Anker and Bambu, and the open sourcing of Positron portable printer, I *really* am excited to see the pressure it puts on the old guard, including Creality and Prusa both. Shame on them both for thinking too small. And I have 2 Creality machines I am happy with, but I want the industry to be *doing better.* Make it possible for everyday people to actually print. Make it possible to print in multiple colors. Make it possible to print without any SD cards, ever. Make it faster. So, I will wait on the sidelines even tho this looks like an awesome machine. How will the established players respond? That's what I wanna see.

I backed the kickstarter for the Carbon with AMS. Looks like it will do more than my RatRig for about half the price.

Gotta say, this was the best video I've seen from you so (so far)!

I know the happy path with this printer will be to use the Bambu slicer, but…. I’m interested to see how difficult it is to slice with PrusaSlicer, and prepend the Gcode with all the Bambu Labs special sauce (LiDAR, flow analysis , etc.) at the beginning.

It would be awesome if we could purchase the ASM independent of the printer, and adapt it to the Prusa iMK3s ! The MMU2s is not reliable (IMO). Having the ASM is a very polished MMU alternative (if it were compatible!)

How does it hold up to solvable filaments? or mixing different filament types, its single nozzle right so all 4 filaments have to have the same temp i guess?

Really sweet printers… but I refuse to do anything with kick starter. I decided to build a Voron 2.4 r2. I’m not counting out the x1… but I’ll have to wait till it’s released to consider it

Hey Joel. I've been really interested in this machine and have been straddling the line on buying one at pledge stage. One of the things I'm not seeing a lot about is the part cooling ability of the machine. Sure it seems SUPER quick but at what point does its speed out perform its part cooling ability? I'd love to see some prints that really push it's part cooling potential and probably by extension it's stringing

This is the first time Ive kickstarted. Im the type of guy who has a modded to hell printer that I spent more than the price of the printer upgrading, and this has literally every feature I could want apart from repairability and app free network control. I just cant resist the level of ease of use. The lidar and filament changing combined with an all metal hotend are what really won me over. Even if it costs 200 dollars to replace the hotend its still worth it. I just cant believe someone finally cracked the code and its only 2000 dollars canadian. Just insane value. Just think, I alost bought the prusa corexy. I know the build volume here isnt amazing, but its a tradeoff Ill make for all the other features this has.

i'd like to see some high-temp prints, since the Carbon variant is supposed to be capable

I missed the early bird one - I will hold off and order one when they rev the hardware.

Hey Joel.... As part of the name of the printer that you got there says carbon, I would love to see a carbon infused nylon and a PC print. We did support them in the Kickstarter and would love to hear your take on those use cases. Keep up the good work.

I love this honest opinion concerning Kickstarters!!

this is the first time i have seen this printer backed the project when there is only 9 hours left lol

This is the machine to keep on the TikTok live.

They couldn't possibly have sent it to that many people. I for one have not received one yet, never mind the fact that I'm not a KZfaq sensation and would probably not do any type of review of the product. I think this is one of the more impressive looking consumer level printers I've seen in a while. Loved the warning about how the Kickstarter funding works.

Love your take Joel. I only justified my pledge as it’s work. If they don’t deliver? I can make a video about it. If they do? Oh boyyyyyy👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

I loved that rant

that purged material looks like it would be much easier to recycle

This printer really does get me excited. As someone that has tried out two enders printers 3 v2 and 5 plus (both of which I returned after many struggles more than likely on me), this looks like my dream printer. The main goal I have for printing is cosplay so I hope the build space can really be what I need for printing helmets in as few pieces as possible. While features such as multiple materials and colors seem nice it also really doesn't seem like a big reason for me to buy the printer. While I won't pledge for it I will 100% be keeping and saving for after the full release happens.

Watching! Can't wait to hear your opinion buddy. 🙏

I stop buying stuff from kickstarter, I never got my stuff. I bought this cause it was a great product , but I used my Amex platinum card. In case it doesn’t come. They will refund my money 😉👍🏽. I appreciate the input on it, it was because of you I saw this the first time.

I'd really just be interested in it's reliability. Basically anyone these days can make a solid printer. Whether or not that printer is still printing reliably a year later is kind of what separates the good from the bad imo. And all machines will have wear parts and require maintenance so how does this printer differ in that regard? Are parts proprietary, will Bambu labs stand by their design 5 years from now, etc, etc.

So you don't like Kickstarter then Joel? agree though, it kinda sucks they went this route but also understandable to gain momentum. Great review, I backed it and I'm looking forward to it arriving in July/August/Never..... let's stay positive!

For people who don't know, it does not use lidar (despite what they say), and the slicer not currently being open source is violating the license they agreed to.

Whoa black Betty, Bambu Lab.

This is going to be great IIIIIIIIIFFFFFFFFFF the pledged machines AND all future machines are at this level of quality or higher.

“The printer pooped” haha.

Ill definitely be keeping an eye on this printer.

great video, thanks for the warnings about the risk of kickstarters. sad that i don´t have the budget for this kickstarter, but looking forward for the review of production units when the kickstarter starts shipping, depending on those videos, more info and maybe some repair parts cost info, it is a good option for a miltifilament printer.

High five for ever 👋🏻

A reality based review. Thank you.

I have a 3D printer that in relatively unheard of, (based on my research). I was wondering if for a 3D printer review you could go over the UP mini 2 by Tiertime.

Your so right, also the pledge doesn't include shipping which is basically what I am "saving" (I am guessing) which means I end up playing the retail price... Thus, I'll just wait a bit longer but it does look like a good printer!

Sad IVI didn't follow through. I know they were having some issues before Covid, however I think the pandemic was the final blow. Sad because we invested in two machines. :( We won't be doing kickstarter again.

Absolute excellent rant! So important for people to understand. I was a bit suspicious about the quality of the machine versus the relative low cost, wouldn't be the first product that sells well-ish, but for not enough that it can survive. On the other hand, which wasn't very clear since the beginning to me, they seem a Chinese company. So, that might give it some more credit to success (but that's only based on the fact they can produce cheaper and ship way too cheap as well and still survive). It would be the first quality printer I've ever seen originating from there though. I'm waiting for a year until I decide, then we have the Prusa XL, a Voron kit and a X1-carbon to compare. :)

been waiting on your review of this, but couldn't miss out on the early bird

Thank you for pointing out the obvious with kickstarter!

"let's approach this with a level BED". Is how I thought you would spin that

Almost clicked that button. I decided I can't afford to burn ANY money. I do love the features of this machine. I will pay the full price when and if it is what they say. Thanks Joel.

Thanks for the overview and I'm absolutely with you, this isn't a real Kickstarter and we could expect getting this beautiful beasts. :-D What I am interested in, they say the Carbon version with the hardened steel nozzle is ideal for printing PA and PC, so what about that? And finally i think the hardware specs are phenomenal for this price, let's hope they get the Software to a similar level.

Pre-ordered mine a couple days ago 😁

My Ecubmaker Toy DIY also poops out purge filament for multi-material printing, except it comes out of the right side. I do believe this method produces less waste than a purge tower, thus saving filament and money.

Building the machine is fun too 😉

I have some interest on this new printer and almost bought it at kickstarter, but I decided to wait a bit and wait for the second generation of bambulab, thinking that some problems will occur with this new one yet... Your review was really good, I'm now waiting also for the new prusa xl reviews to decide if im going ahead with prusa or wait for the next too...

Yeah, Kickstarter doesn't have any protections....but PayPal does. As do other means of payment. I think I will be backing for the $1k version. I'm willing to bet software/AI/App improvements will come. Possibly even by delivery.

Hey Joel - I was working with a client that was 3D printing parts for a prototype. He's got 3 Prusa machines (not sure of the model), and I said, by the way, are you familiar with the KZfaqr 3D Printing Nerd? he said, "Oh yeah, he's like the best-known 3D printing KZfaqr!" Yer a star, and I can say - "I know him!" good on ya!

I'm kind of curious about how detailed figures would look with this printer. Such as anime figures etc. Also I'm not sure if creating model kits would be possible with this