This is what consumers need. Completely open about pros and cons. Great job

Although I have only had my X1C for 4 days at this point, I have experienced an abbreviated version of some of the issues you describe minus the customer support. I did not experience the customer support issues because as soon as my issues arrived, I went to the community through forums and youtube (your channel included) to work on my machine. I went into the purchase with the idea that their machine would just work. For the first 2 prints it did. Then the issues arrived and I have been running calibration and testing since. Having the early mentality that I am most likely going to have to fix the machine due to the slow and inadequate customer support that BL, much like many other companies provide I think set me up of better success. I am not new to 3d printing as I have been running a few SLA printers for years at this point but I am new to FDM printing. Having to troubleshoot and correct issues on my own gave me a much deeper understanding of the process. This machine as described from many of the creators on youtube is just supposed to work out of the box. While it has for some, like you it has not for me. I have it dialed in now but at a pretty significant cost of my own time and filament. I really do hope BL can up their QC and CS and provide a better experience for newbies to FDM like me. That being said a friend of mine is getting ready to purchase a new machine in the next week and I told him if he was stuck on BL, get a P1P or P1S and use Orca slicer. You don't need to spend as much money on a machine because you are sold to a customer service and quality that is not there out of the box and you might as well save the money.

I think this is the only bad review of a Bambu I have seen on youtube

The fact that you *fixed* this thing by running carbon fiber filament through it is *wild*

1 year in with x1c. I have built printers and used many, including high end rigs. It has been the best experience i have ever had to date. Its amazing.

Over 1,500 hours on my X1C. Never had a single issue. AMS has never clogged or had issues. I even skip bed leveling 90% of the time, and still get perfect first layers. The only time I have had failed prints was when I tried to do something goofy in the slicer. Oh ya, and I run it on sport, and mode exclusively. Cause, who wants to wait… I use sunlu PLA, PETG, Bambu PLA-CF and TPU. I was recommended to get a x1c by 3 people I work with (engineers), who all have multiple machines with no issues to speak of. Sounds like you got a lemon.

Ive been printing my on my X1 Carbon since it came out without a single issue. I have over 6 printers and nothing beats the quality and speed of my X1. For starters maybe keep yours clean at least. Looking at all that filament on the bottom gave me anxiety. I do minimum monthly maintenance and the thing runs like a gem

Ive been loving my X1C combo and have relatively zero issues. You may have ended up with a couple lemons but that in itself is an issue.

While their printers have been marketed towards new users, I think having experience with Creality and building two Rat Rigs has helped me. I have never contacted Bambu Support, but have fixed my own problems. Early on I realized that I would need spare parts, and they are fairly priced. I have replaced the extruders on both my X1 carbon and P1P, and have spare hot end assemblies - I use the AMS sparingly, prefer using the external spool for single color PLA. My biggest complaint is the lack of a simple network hookup - like I have running Klipper on my Rat Rigs.

I think you've highlighted a problem about Chinese products that will rear its ugly head more often if they start exporting electric cars to North America. The Chinese approach to manufacturing has and is to deliver the product to market at a cheaper price than anyone else and thus over time gain production facilities and export markets for their products. This looks good in the short term but there is a missing component in this formula - it's called after sales issues which include service , technical support , warrantee and long term reliability. You can have the highest performance machine in the world but if you can't get it serviced in a reasonable amount of time and cost then it's basically junk. Why a company would ignore or avoid identifying product problems and then effecting fixes and thus improving the machine is a major issue for me ( and I believe others ) .

Learning to fix the bambus is the best thing you can do, i have found as a first timer that most of the fixes and maintenance really dont take that long once you get the hang of it, its just a new machine with new processes to learn

i bought a Bambu A1 at microcenter a week ago as my first 3d printer. So far so good, but this video has def given me some things to look out for. I hadn't heard about the orca slicer thing, if they don't start behaving in a more ethical way towards the open source community then my second 3d printer will be from someone else, even if I don't have any problems with my A1

So glad i watched this. Bambu support was horrible to work with when UPS sent my printer back when i paid for them to hold it. Wanted me to pay $111 to get it back to me and when emailing there would be radio silence for days. I finally said i wanted a refund. Ordered August 18th and going back and forth with support has now taken me over 2 weeks and I havent even gotten a confirmation that they'll actually refund it. I really want an AMS but have been apprehensive to buy another bambu unit. I think this video has finally tipped my scale. Thank you so much!!

Hi! Great review! I just bought my X1 and honestly I've not had time to have a problem but out of the box, it is amazing. I feel like somebody there at Bambu has listened to you and may have made some changes. Like the noise level. I have mine running next to me in my home office and the noise is not a problem at all so maybe they have changed the fans to quieter fans? I've not printed the parts you say that save the AMS from wearing out but I'm going to consider that for sure. How long do you think it would take before it causes catastrophic wear on the AMS? I've just been running Basic PLA and PLA-tough.

I'm about 100 prints in with my X1C with 99% success rate so far. I'm really hoping I don't start running into major issues in the future. To be fair I'm not over adventurous when it comes to filaments etc, I pretty much just print the same brand ABS in different colors all day every day, so that could have something to do with it.

My printer has been no-stop perfect the last 1500hrs it's been printing I just keep it clean and maintained. Bambu is doing leap and bounds of what any company in 3D printing has ever done. Plus the updates are making it better and better.

This guy is super knowledgeable and I do not doubt he has the experience to back it up. I will say I work in IT and run into this type of personality very frequently who wants to solve the problem so bad that they will ignore support instructions, ignore updates, and try to customize things not meant to be customized which probably ends up conflating the issue. Also what data are you putting out that you are concerned about? You creating medical tags? Air gap your network if your worried about it being an attack vector. Going back to the data, the only way they can get better is collecting data at mass to correct the issues. I hate to tell you, every computer and phone regardless of brand is doing the same thing.

I think you need to accept this isn’t an open source printer and trust them to use the current firmware and such. It’s unfortunate they aren’t more open source, but you can’t see what’s going over the walled garden so you don’t know what they put in those updates. I don’t think a firmware update will “fix your parts” or whatever you said. But it seems like a complicated problem, and ignoring firmware update just seems silly to me

Best review on youtube thank you

Out of my fleet of printers haven't had an issue out of the 60 various printers at my shop. Bambus printers have raised the bar and i really hope the rest of the industry and can catch up.

Never had an issue with mine, very happy with it

Thank you for being one of the only people honest about Bambu. I have four Bambus and after a few months they started breaking down constantly. Support sucks. The only thing worse than their tech support is their sales support. Regardless what they say they dont accept returns. If you return something you'll never hear from them again. Disputing it on your credit card will be the only option.

Finally, an in depth review not looking at this with rose colored glasses because someone WANTS this to be good so badly, and does not want to accept the true cost of research, reliability, and support that companies like prusa have. I ordered a mk4 because consistent quality and true hands free first layers + support are worth more than non practical speed improvements (looking at the sacrifice in quality) anyday for me. I really really considered buying a x1c as a second printer and really wanted it to be good, but your review helped confirm a lot of issues I have seen posted elsewhere, the same issues that drove me to abandon creality. I'm just so tired of reviewers and forums blindly reccomending these crappy PRC brands, ignoring the major company ethics concerns, and the entire support / ecosystem around competitor brands. I wanted an objective rundown of "here's the shit" to see if it was the shit I was willing to deal with. Thank you for providing that.

Crazy. I've had only one issue which I figured out myself. Their customer service does suck. I thought about asking them and then I saw the ridiculous form they require to start a ticket and just broke down and fixed it myself. Overall my printer has been fantastic, pushing out nearly perfect prints.

You mentioned that the MCU may contain the AES key, looking at the data sheet for the SPC2168 it seems that the AES engine probably accesses the key from the ROM. Now how to access the ROM I'm not so sure about you probably have to hard wire to one of the GPIO pins to access it from an outside system. But its not only the MCU that has an AES engine on it, the Rockchip SOC (the RV1126) also has a cipher engine on it which can support a variety of algorithms (including AES). I would assume the key for the cipher is stored on the ROM or on the OTP memory. But accessing it from an outside system would require you to desolder the chip and transplant it to a developer board to be able to access the pinout of the chip. Seeing how the SN is stored on the SOC the AES key is probably stored on it too. Not sure how the encryption is really done, I would like to hear your findings too! Edit: There also seems to be a Micro USB port on the AP board. This USB port is probably used for programming and configuring the SOC at the factory before it gets put into a frame on the assembly line. Maybe you could somehow take advantage of that port to also read the data thats on the SOC?

Gonna be honest, based on my own personal experience and that of thousands of others across groups and message boards. I think this guy is just saying "bambu bad" as a way to drive views to his content. I was an original backer for bambu and have been printing since receiving my unit. Aside from a little lubricant on my z screws have had nothing but excellent results. The sentiment among the community at large is largely the same. However, if one were to come out with a series of videos with a bit of a hot take ie: bambu bad. They might drive alot of views to their channel.

I bought a p1s after i saw your video...im not sure what happend there, but I couldn't be more happy with my printer. It does everything for me, no more clogging no more worries, I can monitor it after im out of the house, and on my phone i can stop i can pause i can change temperatures can even put a model on trough makerworld and print it if its loaded. It prints everything perfect and 2 or 3 times faster then most of the printers. If the printer has a problem it will identify it and tell me whats happening, saving me the hell of trying to figure out by myself and replacing parts that are not necessary. I dont have to carry an sd card around the house, I can send it directly trough my computer and boom its printing. Seriously, coming from a Kingroon Im not used to be so spoiled! It's so much fun. My only regret is not buying the Bambu X1C bc I have no lidar and should probably calibrate the spools individually which I only did once so far bc the generic profile on the Bambu Studio prints GREAT. I'm so glad I skipped Prusa, I would probably be doing maintenance to it if I bought a MK4, instead I can focus on printing and make a buck out of it. Im not trying to be an engineer here...I just wanna print. Bambu is light-years ahead it just makes everything else old and obsolete.

I ordered a Pusa XL with 5 Toolheads. I hope it will work fine as my i3 MK3 does

Thanks for sharing your advise and expertise. With ypur experience, i was looking into buying one of those because ease of use for the muticolor prints. Would love one of your videos with a comparison about the different multicolor options, like the chameleon, the palette, the prusa mmu ann the bambu labs ams

Thank you for the honest review, guy who looks like Loki if he became a critical engineer. I specifically looked for someone who didn’t have affiliate links and got exactly what I was looking for from this video. I still bought an X1C with AMS, but I know what to expect, and am glad I have an army of Prusa’s to keep my business moving forward while I learn my way around the Bambu.

I have owned one for a few months now and with the exception of a failed pull here and there, it has been great. This has been running almost 24/7 for me.

I love my X1C and use the engineering build plate and ABS and never had any of the problems. I use Inland filament (cardboard spools) and my prints never fail.

I’ve had nothing but good prints with my Bambu lab Carbon printer. But…. I use their PEI plate almost exclusively.

Bambu seems like the Mac of 3d printer. Others do it just as good but Bambu's cult will attack you for saying so.

I can't understand how this review can be soooo different from every other review, and your own comments.... did you by any chances test your printer before your non-standard upgrades?

Finally ordered a Prusa. I don't need the speed of a Bambu that badly. I want something that is reliable and can be easily fixed when need be.

I've had nothing but problems with my x1c as well. Actually waiting on a replacement right now. The support has been so bad it's crazy. If they don't fix the training and quality control they will fail. I regret my purchase very much and unfortunately I purchased a ton of replacement parts as well and now I'm stuck with it. They need to send me one that works.

I’ve had my printer for 4 months. And I’ve had no problems. One of the best printers.😎 and bambu service is very reliable and they sent me a replacement part after I broke something. And uselessly when you’re having a failure 9/10 it’s usually your fault or the file being corrupted. I’m not saying it’s perfect cause nothing is. But it’s definitely not a bad printer.

Also - if you know so much about hardware, why haven’t you identified any source of any issue, and why aren’t you making your own printer?

So are you not updating the firmware as a matter of principle because internet required or because it has already printed highly secretive prints? Just wondering because you can Hotspot for the duration of a firmware update, no?

Please start a fund to crack that code, I think a lot of people would be willing to add to the pool. Other creators and people from the 3d community might get intrested and spread awareness. If we get to a decent number people who aren’t even in the 3d space will be willing to attempt to crack the code. I don’t hate bambu, I hate the CCP and am weary of all Chinese companies that have access to data.

Mines the same way. The extruder kept clogging on every print multi color is not happening and support had me take apart the whole machine when I said it’s the extruder ams sent vids. Then they said your original complaint was the run out sensor. I went back and read 2 weeks of back and forth and I never said anything about that so I went off on them now I’m waiting on a new extruder

Great video! 👍 However, I need to share my experience. I was shipped a broken Bambu Labs printer, and it feels wrong that I'm the one having to fix it after paying for a brand-new, working machine. Support took 3 days to get back to me, and after a week of troubleshooting, we discovered it was an AC Power board issue. Instead of sending a replacement, they're only repairing the faulty one, and they completely ignored my request for a new printer. It might look like a great product, but their customer service is a letdown. I'm seriously considering a PRUSA for my next purchase.

nice to see someone being honest. I baught a X1C and just recently returned it due to all these same issues. worst part was the support they would give me a "solution" then when i would try it and it did nothing they would then say i didnt follow their advise.

Love this machine

You know the weird Max Headroom glitches and constant splicing of video get distracting after a while. Maybe have a script, learn it and present the speech in one sweep without needing to splice it all together?

the fact that you wrote that carbon fiber joke is way funnier than the carbon fiber joke

You are very unlucky. X1C and P1P print perfectly most of the time. CPU board failed on X1C a few months ago (I was a Kickstarter) and support was very helpful and got me a free replacement quickly. Early AMS unit cracking at the bearings was a problem, but one I found a fix for-- the fix USED TO BE on the Bambu wiki but they pulled it. Currently having occasional retraction problems in which the AMS can't pull the filament back but it is NOT stuck at the printhead - if I disconnect at the printhead fitting, the filament pulls back easily from the head. I've had this on both X1C and P1P with separate AMS units. Must be in the AMS or hub unit, but the hub surely can't be it. Been meaning to look into the AMS itself, seems it may have 2 motors, one at feeder and one about 12 inches away- because that's about how much filament is left when the manually pulling goes from very hard to fairly light (which I can tell the last 12 inches or so is just the feeder motor). Regarding network security, 3D Printing Professor has a video telling how to turn on LAN mode and avoid the cloud and NOT rely on Sneakernet.

Success rate higher than 50%... wow. My slow, old Prusa MK3S+ is more like a 99.5% success rate. I think I had two or three fails in the early days when I was still trying to figure out what I was doing. Ever since, it just churns out PETG prints without issues. Even tiny little contact areas for small items, I don't even bother putting a brim anymore, standard Prusa textured plate.

An honest and fair review; exactly what I've come to expect from you. As you know, my experience with the X1C has been a polar opposite to yours, and I really wish you were having the same experience I am. I got one of yhe first Kickstarter units, so I've had mine for a year. I wonder if the QC on the printers slipped hard between my unit and yours, and that might explain some of your issues? In any case, i admire your resolve to help Bambu improve despite all the trouble you've had.

That was really interesting, i was completely charmed, but the data security made me take a couple steps back... thanks! Gonna research a bit about it

My '19 anycubic mega S was less than $200 and is still running to this day...meanwhile my P1P was dead after just 10hrs after delivery. Took two weeks to hear back from customer support for a dead stepper motor and all they did was try to void my warranty when I asked them to take the printer back and give me a refund...because I threw away the original packaging. They wouldn't give me a refund, but agreed to sending a replacement P1P, but only after I pay another $700 for a refundable deposit. I replied with "hell no, you're competing with prusa. Prusa doesn't play these silly games and neither should you"...dropped it off the next day at the austin TX center's doorstep and did a CC chargeback.

My Prusa MK4 just works! The parts it makes are strong and functional and the fit and finish is extremely impressive. Uploading everything I do to Bambu Labs really isn't my first choice.

Do you have to hook the machine up to a network? Or can it be run standalone on physical memory cards?

I really like the X1C but I too have had bad support experience. They blamed me for an issue and basically told me I couldn't read. I'm happy with my purchase, but am worried about it long-term

I had concerns about these and I think they're really not worth someone like you offering them help. Help those that want to help others with initiative. They're not offering ingenuity, quality control, or customer service - these are huge early red flags.

Bambu better start paying attention to you, because you're the reason I'm waiting for Prusa to make a competing product instead of jumping on an X1.

Bambu be like, did you level your bed? Lol

what I'm really looking forward to is someone jailbreaking these things.

You pretty well hit my concerns about bambu on the head as well. A lot of this is why i chose prusa over bambu. Your point about how they can't be making much if any money on the printers does raise the question of how much data they are selling. I feel like there would be huge community backlash if it came out that the real product produced by bambu is the people they are selling to.

Have you tried using a ruler to check if your build plate is flat? Apparently there were some bad batches around January to April where buildplates dropped in the middle

My X1C has been down for 6 weeks due to what i assume is a bad heatbed. Customer service has been terrible to deal with and the machine is quite hateful to disassemble and troubleshoot.

Before this video i critized your veiw on Bambu althought, you did good at putting togather an argument. I also see what you did with there supprot and better can understand the value of you using it rather then just doing what you knew and fixing it. Many good points made... good job.

Great review. You have confirmed a large amount of my concerns. I think it is great that Bambu came about and. have shaken up the. 3D printer markup but I will stick with reliable, open machines I can repair, replace, and upgrade myself with parts off of Amazon. I am ok with a closed ecosystem, but not so much when the company has literally built most of what they are doing from other companies' hard work in the open space. I have an MK4 on its way as an upgrade for one of my MK3 and I was thinking of the X1 Carbon to replace the other (I am just a hobbyist who likes to play) but I have been seriously divided because of the issues mentioned in the video even before seeing this video. I am interested in seeing where the company goes, but for now I will stick with Prusa.

Glad some one finally speaks about this. My ams system give me nothing but trouble. It always unloads well except for the last but where it needs a nudge to fully unload. I tried all sort of things and bambu support just tells me to do which I just told them. It also takes a day for them to even get back to you, even if it's not a usefull reply at all

Note this video is 1 year old, and Bambu has released lots of firmware updates since then. Unsure if they’ve tweaked the hardware unnoted.

Yeah, the Bambu customer service is horrible. They take multiple days to respond and randomly close out the issue without a response. In the 8 months I have had the printer I have had the issues below: 1. Print bed level cable failed and I had to take the back of the printer apart to replace (with a cable I had to buy myself because customer service was unresponsive). 2. Extruder clogged and I had to take about the extruder to remove the filament. I can no only print PLA with door open and top removed (as suggested by Bambu customer service). 3. The AMS internal boden tubes wore down and had to take the AMS apart to replace 4. The AMS filament sensors quit working and I had to replace AMS filament input section I do run the printer almost 24/7, but the lack of any real customer support would make me shy away from recommending to new 3D printer users.

Grant, I know you and a lot of others have had a less than stellar experience with the Bambu, but hear me out. I have close to 3k hours on one, almost 2k on another one, and recently sold one with 1500 hours on it to free up shelf space for a Voron. I have used the AMS with them since the day they came in (all of them). I initially had some issues with slot 3 but after a while, they kind of just went away on their own. I think the PTFE from the AMS just needs time to wear in and shape. I've printed hundreds of kg of filament, including several carbon fiber blends, wood filled, glitter, and glow in the dark. I have observed no issues caused by abrasives. The AMS feeders are not designed to wear out, but they are objectively referred to as a consumable part, kind of like nozzles. No nozzle is designed to wear intentionally, but it should be expected that eventually youll have to replace it. FWIW, ive never replaced a Bambu nozzle, and I have 6 of them sitting in a drawer, because I didnt expect them to wear out. Build plates are consumables, nozzles, AMS feeders, extruder packs, etc. Not designed to wear out on purpose, but will eventually need replacing. Id also like to mention that it has not all been peachy. I had filament that kept breaking inside the extruder, and it was a real PITA to have to disassamble the hotend, take apart extruder, find the .5mm of broken filament, and replace. This was attributed to bad filament (hatchbox). Once I threw it out, it never came back. Also had some bed adhesion issues until I scrubbed the ever living hell out of the plates. Now, not an issue. The machines just seemed to wear in over time. Now, Im a happy camper with ver few failures that arent caused by printing PETG too fast, or me trying something crazy in the slicer. ALSO: I am still a Prusa fanboy and love my Prusa mini more than any printer I have or have ever owned.

I am so glad I preordered the Prusa XL. Supposedly the 5 tool XLs will start shipping this week (today as a mater of fact). Anyway, I went back and forth between the X1 Carbon and the XL and what sold me the most, Prusa's customer support. With my MK3 they have ALWAYS been Johny on the spot via chat session. They haven't always been able to fix my problems but for the most part my problems have been minor and I was able to fix them with input from Prusa's customer support and some other research on my own. Although I feel for you and your troubles with the X1, I feel good that I stuck with Prusa to enter the large format, multi material realm.

Lol we got one at work. It works better than any printer I have ever used. You hate it, ship it to my house.

Finally, some one mentions about the stupid bambu customer services

look inside x1c from a guy say it not work well .. Okay

Excellent review. Thanks for the honesty. Bambu seems to quash any non glowing comments

My first printer was a FLSUN-QQSPro . It was junk that barley worked. My second was a Creality Ender5Pro. Worked a lot better and gave me high confidence of getting what I wanted out of it. The X1C is my third printer and I have so much confidence in it, that there's more chance of it being my fault if something goes wrong. One of the best things I've ever bought.

First, I'm not a Chinese, so zero bias here; I found out this review turns out to be strongly subjective on multiple perspectives. We run an aero-space mobility design agency, using Bambu quite a lot to test out design iterations. I personally feel lots of critics mentioned in the video has been blown up dramatically with unnecessary words. By the way, you can run a Bambu offline if you wish. Yes, you're right, their customer service and several technical issues are not good, but putting a group of hardworking engineers and designers into a shit hole in a 22 minutes video is not gentlemen at all. Cheers :)

I have five and find them easy to fix. Sure I have 10,000sq ft of shop equipment to make what I need. But besides that Bambu has sent me nearly everything I’ve asked for.

For the algorithm.

I was going to comment about a recently popular news story regarding carbon fiber but the structural use of carbon fiber in compression is out of my depth.

So do you think its worth buying the prusa mk4 and not bambu lab?

still the best 3d printer on the market. EASILY

This is so obnoxious. You were having software issues and you refused to update to the latest firmware for some general fear of a theoretical data security issue based on the fact that the engineers are from DJI. Throwing out that tenuous link, DJI is used by consumers every day same as this. I bet customer support didn’t really have any options because you wouldn’t update your unit.

I had never a better printer then the Bambu printer. So far I had not a single failed print. I am very happy with it. I find the comments particularly interesting where users find their concerns confirmed even though they don't even have the printer.

”with speed comes noise” Not necessarily. Try a FLSun V400.

Quit crying and sell it. I have a feeling even if you continue to beg bambu to hire you, they wont. But i do respect your views on privacy.

I still find it crazy that they feel a need to encrypt the log files if there isn't anything hidden inside.

Bambu doesn't back up their products. They only do customer support to drag you out of the warranty period. They have no desire to help you once they have your money.

I ordered an X1C, loved it so much I ordered a second. I've had lots of issues - but every issue was because I used old filament or made a slicer setting error. Filament feed issues from the AMS because the filament broke somewhere inside the AMS, broken filament in the PTFE tube in the machine, extruder issues, nozzle clogs, etc. Any new filament, and most filament I dried out, worked fine, though I only use relatively new filament in the AMS, and use older filament on the spool holder. The one mod I have on the machine is the Y-splitter that lets me easily switch between the AMS and the spool holder. Cardboard spools have also been an issue when the spool is more than half empty. The spools have a smaller inner diameter, and the filament angle when the spool reaches that point results in a more acute angle from spool to AMS input, which somehow causes the spool to not turn freely. I have learned how to fix issues with the AMS, just by referencing their wiki and KZfaq videos. Ditto with cleaning out nozzle/extruder clogs. I have yet to run into an issue I couldn't resolve myself without needing to contact Bambu support. In customer support, it is a pretty typical scenario for support to insist you return an item to factory condition and reproduce the error (e.g. remove any user mods) prior to troubleshooting. Remember both ends of the conversation. 1) The customer service representative is likely leveraging a script and wiki/FAQ, and they have zero knowledge of the impact of any mods you've added and shouldn't be expected to know what mods are safe vs. unsafe and/or trust your statements that your mods have nothing to do with the problem. 2) Though you may be an intelligent, experienced 3D printing guru, a not insignificant number of customers they deal with are not, and you would be amazed at the ingenious ways customers can screw up their machines inadvertently. It reminds me of an episode of House, M.D. and his comment that patients lie about their health/symptoms to their doctor ;-) Do you have a well-secured (isolated) guest network on your router? If so, connect your Bambu to that network just for the duration of a firmware update, and then disconnect it if you're worried about nefarious network traffic.

Man respect and enjoy your videos, but here you just act as a cry baby begging Bambu to hire you ...... Is not a perfect machine but is the best out there

Watching you consistently fail at the simplest things and continuously ignore facts because you think they're 'wrong' was very underwhelming. I will not waste any more time on this channel and will enjoy my three X1Cs.

I've got a lemon as well. I've had it for several months. Bambu support seems to think that my time is worthless. Reliability is horrible. I seriously think that the support people are throwing darts at a board. For the price of this machine, they could easily replace it. The OP here is definitely more generous than I would be regarding what he would do for bambu. I'm going to go through on more round of replacing parts, then I think I'm going to recreate the office space printer scene. I bought this machine to start a business to get a product to market cheaper than getting tools made for plastic injection. It was a risk. But this machine IMHO doesn't live up to the hype. I would love to see the log files. I seriously don't think their log files contain enough information to figure out what the problem is. Seriously, if this printer can't figure out that it's not extruding filament and air printing for hours what in the hell is it monitoring? I would be happy for them to provide a refund, but he'll, I can't even get them to replace the machine, which I would settle for. I'll keep you posted if I end up recreating the office space scene.

The AMS is a piece of garbage. Yes, it works well when it works, but the parts are just too fragile and the PTFE tube routes are too tight of a bend. The motors are underpowered also. I have two X1C's and they work great, however after only a couple of months on one, I've had to buy AMS parts.

I kinda want one of these but I am now stuck on multi material. I don't want anything without it and the complicated add-on setups are too much. This seems to be the only option. I am running a K2 max rn. Should I get this for printing things to sell?

for the money, honestly, i think people would be better off with the QidiTech X Max 3, sure it's a bit more finnicky, but the print results/quality are there, they have done a lot of work to get a good printer, and honestly, it's pretty impressive. and yes, the carbon fiber tubes are a terrible idea for a printer gantry system. the wear and tear will wear them out, and then you have to replace them - notably with tiny bits of carbon fiber being shredded into your air for you to breathe. Steel tubing, or titanium tubing, or some industrial grade aluminum alloy tubing, makes much more sense, and is SOOO much easier to maintain. the only real downside is the strange choice to put the filament... behind the machine... I mean i get it for compact use, and if it is on a shelf not against a wall it works out.. but... yeah... a bit odd choice.

Just from my own personal experience, I had the same initial issues, I print with Carbon Fiber all the time and same as you my prints got better I didn't make the connection until I saw this video (I had thought I fixed it with my slicer settings). However, I replaced my nozzle, and the same issues started up again. However, after updating the firmware, it actually did fix pretty much all the issues I was having. It might be worth it for you to give in and just update your machine to see if it helps. Afterward, disconnect the machine from your network, and if you're really paranoid, change your network security settings; network name, security type, password, etc. (or update it using your phone as a hotspot) Then run your machine manually moving forward, but the firmware update does and did make a big difference for me. This fixed my machine, and I was having pretty much the same issues as you. Best wishes and good luck! 👍

Just for S&Gs . . . did you try a Bambu plate & removing the guides? I am a total 3D Printer rookie and the Bambu has performed flawlessly. The exception being the filament rolls have been tangled up on 2 different spools (but not a single issue with the 3D printing). We are looking to upgrade to a large scale 3D printer and the horror stories I hear from most manufacturers has us thinking twice . . .

With my P1P i have had nothing but success printing, and no issues to date. As far as CUI and CMMC, it is likely most of your audience has no concern with this so it is interesting you are even bringing it up (and yes, I deal with it directly at work, but not at home). You can firewall the machine off easily at home. My P1P printer setup in 20 minutes and printed as well as I have seen. Just presenting perspective. These machines can and do work better than you portray and they are finding their way into printer farms. As for Prusa/Orca/Bambu...they are all open source slicers.

The only issues I've had so far, I've caused 😂 wet filament, bad settings for generic, contaminated bed with ASA so PLA won't stick. PTFE accidentally on the nozzle wiper from from lubing up the poop chute. Not purging materials in the correct order etc. You should have returned yours and bought a Prusa for 4x the cost. I don't like the cloud spy aspect but I'm not making parts for a skunkworks and suspect their budget allows for more industrial machines. 😂

I really don't understand why someone would spend $1500 on the X1C when the P1S is $699 and the A1 is $399? And they say the carbon rods will wear out and can't be replaced?

What I believe is that bambulab machine will go opensource oneday finally.

Do bamboo give any reason for encrypting the log files? What settings or parameters on a 3d printer could possibly require encryption?