As a beginner I am so glad to see someone who just wants to print. I am a beginner in 3D modeling and printing. I have plenty to learn and don’t need a printer to tear apart and rebuilt on top of everything else at the moment. I’m looking to use 3D printing as a tool to improve my main hobby, not have it be my main hobby. I’ll be looking deeper into this channel and hopefully finding the footing I need.

I use the Prusaslicer with my K1. I figured out a way to get the side fan control using the custom g-code "after layer change". Here is the code I came up with and it works. M106 P2 S{(layer_num < 1 ? 0 : 204)} ; Side fan to 80% after layer 1 It will turn on the side fan after the first layer is printed. The 204 is the speed percentage (204/255) = 0.8 or 80%. Prusaslicer I think gives better results than the Creality slicer, but that might just be my opinion.

Well then, you have got to be a breath of fresh air. Most creators i come across in the 3D printing space are super into the tinkering and optimizing side of things, which, while i do enjoy pushing to get the absolute max out of an investment, most of the time i just cant be bothered and i just want to use the printer as it is. i think you are the first creator ive found that actually shares that sentiment to focus on the goal rather than the journey.

I bought an early K1 and I love it, like you I am a print and go man. I have left behind all that tinkering and can now just slice and send to printer via my computer. I agree about the app and have never even tried it. Luckily as an early buyer I was able to take advantage of Crealitys goodwill gesture for the early problems and got a Camera, Hotend and Extruder replacement as well as a roll of Hyper pla for the princely sum of $2 with free delivery. Well done Creality and keep up the great work Ross😂

It’s even simpler. Some people want a kitchen and some want a microwave. I want a device that just works with little maintenance. Others want the flexibility to change and tweak everything. We’re closer to the microwave than ever but the cost for those is climbing.

I like that 3D printers are evolving and getting easier to use and work with. Bambu has paved the way to the future of 3D printing and is a huge competitor and Creality has to compete with that.

You can get this one for 400 right now. I think it’s a great price. Looks like it will become my first printer.

By the nine, a review that's to the point without all the fluff. Great video!

I like the way you reviewed this. I’m all over the place with my choices.

I do care that it’s open source and appreciate you bringing it up

thank god for reviewers like you. this is the only review I can relate to.

I wish more and more company do the same as what bambu lab and creality are doing. Making FDM printers more user friendly. More competition is always better.

I was always on the fence for FDM printers and slowly coming around to it. This video helps me ease my worries, especially this brand of printer. So, as always, thank you for this review and helping newbies like me feel less intimated when thinking on getting one!

I love your reviews, keep up the great work

I'm new to printing. I started with an Elegoo Neptune 4 Max. Then I bought a Creality K1. I love my K1 and the app. Maybe it's because I'm 49 years old and new to making, but I love it. And Creality's slicer has helped me to learn slicing overall so when I use Prusa or Orca, I don't feel stupid like I did before. I use my K1 daily. I've enjoyed it so much that I bought a second K1 as well as a K1-MAX. I guess for a seasoned maker and a maker who has the expensive Bambu Lab X1C, I can see why they might not like such a budget friendly enclosed Core XY printer. At under $550 normally, and even less on sales, I'm extremely happy. I wish I never bought the Neptune so I could justify another K1. Thanks for your review.

Complete newb to 3D printing and really like your videos as ive been researching. I particularly love the quote from the Bambu A1 & A1 mini vids: "I'm interested in creating, not tinkering". That said: K1 or A1? Both are ~$400 USD.

First time watcher - definitely subscribed. I COULD tweak the hardware - I've been doing IT professionally for over 20 years. But I have ZERO desire to. I just want something that "works". I'm glad you're getting into the non-resin printers, and I picked this up on Christmas sale and LOVE the K1. Am surprised I haven't heard more about it. I also got the camera and LOVE IT. I don't use the phone app at all. But, I basically unpacked it, had essentially no experience with 3D printing (but lots of video watching) and was printing successfully after about 30 minutes. I moved the K1 into another room (b/c it was LOUD) and was able to print off about 10 or 12 walls for DnD landscape just back to back to back. Was a pure joy to use! I hope Creality sees more success with it. They even had a video that showed how to get your first print going (with "one click print" button) which worked great, and is what I use now. Love this printer! And very much enjoyed the video~

Had a K1 Max for a couple of months now... One thing I have done is add a filament heater to the side of the printer to ease the pain of changing filament. Subbed now and TY for the video :)

Your reviews are amazing. I don’t know what open source is either, I just want to print stuff!

Enjoyed it thanks Ross

I see lots of polar opposite reviews of the K1. Nearly every KZfaq video says it's great. And that's likely because they make sure to ship properly QC'ed printers to influencers unless they do it anonymously. But if you read through any forum/reddit it's littered with people like me who've had nothing but headaches from their K1 from the start that even profuse 'tinkering' or following their Creality's support videos will not solve. The biggest issue with them is their quality control. It would print well...IF they assembled it properly from the factory (which in my case they absolutely did not). And their support is horrendously slow. Then when they do send you parts, they are the wrong parts. I'm glad you had a good experience with your K1, but a word of warning to viewers is that you've likely got a 1/3 chance of having a full fledged lemon until they get their QC straight - if they ever do.

Wow! I’m interested!!

I just bought one of these for my son for Christmas. I hope it works well. I just want it to work!

I appreciate your review of the K1. I have seen other reviews that praise the app as the best part of the K1 "experience". So, much for those reviewers' credibility. :)

I think I am gonna consider a Creality after seeing this ! I need a second so this might be the sweet spot for me. Nice Video man !

Great review!

A great video on the K1 that sums up my own attitude to 3D printing. I have been involved since the Rep Rap days and it has been a fascinating journey. But nothing has been such a huge shift as what we are seeing right now, the virtual flood of Core XY machines that are the closest to being an Appliance than ever before (certainly at the Hobbyist end of the scale). This should certainly enable more creatives into FDM 3D printing. That has to be a good thing.

The less faff the better. Solid video my dude!

I got the k1 max AI and love the thing. I have an upgraded ender 3 v2 and the k1 is night an day difference. Super fast, handles almost everything for you without me having to constantly adjust stuff. Print quality looks great as well. Still churning out new prints as we speak.

Since the latest round of updates, that K1 max is looking *mighty* tempting.

I'm happy to see you are liking it. I wouldn't mine taking a look at one myself to go with my P1S.

My use of a printer is to make things, I will fix the printer if I need to but I’d rather spend the time sanding than spent tweaking and minor adjustments, I wanna have it print and print it

Thank you for excellent review from the viewpoint of someone who just wants printer to print. For me, opensource part is actually a really important part and probably why I won't buy Bamboolabs printer. There have been many companies that tried to build their own proprietary printer, went out of business, and now those printers are essentially paperweights because they can't be maintained. Opensource basically means that a year later this printer will still work, can be repaired using oem or 3rd party parts for reaonable price, will still accept fillament from any company and not just from creality, and they won't create some stupid subscription program. Oh, and that also means that if you don't like their mobile app or software then you can replace it with something better (and there are a better alternatives). Not many people care about opensource, but they should imho. 3d printers improved tremendously thanks for the companies who made their designs available to opensource community (prusa, creality, etc.) and its actually sad that companies like bamboolabs now use these technologies to create their own product, add their own touch to it and make it proprietary.

I bought this as my first ever 3d printer as a pre-sale and I've had to sit through bedslinger fanboy reviews ad nauseum saying it's pure shit and scratching my head the entire time. It is definitely NOT shit, In fact I call it my Star trek replicator it's so freaking good. your review nails it as far as future relevance for additive manufacturing, It is practically an out of the box appliance, and like you I personally don't want to tinker I just want to print, and that fact will resonate with creatives and newbies alike who want to print cool shit just like I do. Most KZfaq channels don't recognise this and I think they need to hang it up, the hobby just passed them by. I don't want to argue with another channel owner who waxes nostalgically about the "pure" hobby and who think crappy 100 dollar bed slingers have any type of future anymore and just don't get what the fuss is about. It's about speed, man! Speed and accuracy in a vastly more capable platform too! Watch all the naysayers who in the past dumped on this printer go by the wayside, face it, bro you truly don't get it anymore.

you know, seeing that massive dredge marine just make me want to acquire the printer, and then print out Battletech minis in LARGE scale

I’m trying to make the best of it, but I’m not happy with my K1. I just got it this month and the test runs with sample filament in the box went AMAZING. but as soon as that filament ran out, it’s been nightmares. Constant clogging, bad extruding, stringy pieces sticking to the nozzle and causing chaos. I’m trying to stay level and work through solutions but it’s ridiculous. The other filament I’m using is brand new and Creality branded filament.

Looking forward to the K1 Max review!

Tinker here. Discovered that side when i built a voron and had more mods done to it before i ever had the firmware installed. However i own Prusa printers too because sometimes i just want my print to well print Love your reviews thanks for all that you do 🎉

love the k1, i have had it for around a year now know problem at all

The reason you, and other potential buyers, should care about open source, is because those that do want to tinker and make improvements to the printer and its features can do so, and you will also benefit from those improvements they make as they get integrated. This means K1 owners aren't at the mercy of Creality to fix bugs or add new features when they inevitably forget all about it and drop support for the K1 when the next hot product generation comes out.

honest review....I´m a K1Max user.

Only found a couple of your videos recently because I was shopping for a new FDM printer (actually went with the K1 before seeing this video), and would say I'm more on the tinkerer side but I actually enjoy your perspective on FDM stuff. The deeper you get sometimes the more common sense nonsense gets excused or justified sometimes.

Hi, greetings from Mexico, I've been watching a lot of your videos lately, as I'm about to get my first printer, though I can't really decide on which way to go FDM or Resin, what would you suggest? I'm really looking for as little a need to tinker as possible as right now I just want to focus on printing stuff.

I bought an ender3 v2 then upgraded it (just some things that imho should have been on the machine to begin with) then used it as a work horse (reliably) and bought a second printer that I kitted out fully lol so I am kinda in the middle, but my first ender just works it really is print and play.

Just summed up 3d printing reviews at 10:42. They get sent as a review units, people print a benchy and go "its great!" And not wanting to say anything negative to keep getting sent review units.

Haven’t used a 3d printer for a long time. I just got fed up of them never working properly. I want a print and go solution. With this new wave of core xy designs we seem to be approaching an out of the box solution. I’m seriously considering either a qidi plus 3 or a flashforge 5m

You can actually go to the browser and hit your printer's IP and it has a UI to manage the printer. No need to use the phone app!

Can I guy a K1 at microcenter with confidence that Id be getting the new iteration?

I love my K1. It is such an amazing printer. It did have a rocky start as they probably rushed it. But after the extruder improvement on the next batch and the software updates, it is great.

Luv the do not care !!!

So I know if someone wants smooth surface quality, then they should to SLA printers that do a good job at minis, but when it comes to Fused Filiment such as this, layer lines are just part of the process. Sanding and filling doesn't look like much of an option for that Venom shell for the spidey head, so I was wonder, instead of smoothening the print, what are some good techniques to completely hide the layer lines visually? Is there a paint or certain colour filament that will make them hardly noticeable while being looked at on a shelf?

Mine has been stopping mid print lately but thinking more about that it's the same print so possibly a bad file. Other than that I've run it hundreds of hours with 0 issues. It prints every pla I throw at it with no fuss. Just set it and forget it. Some stringing with certain brands since it likes to run 220-230 for every profile probably because it moves so fast but not a big deal.

3rd option. I like doing both. Making and tweaking. Within reason

I was hoping Bambu would bring out a larger printer but that did not happen. Seems I don't have a choice apart from the K1 Max. But then with 3 printers and one of them being a CR10s am still on the fence.

I can print the files that come with the K1, buy I can't print any files that I have downloaded to the usb...it shows "no file available"

All fun and games but can we customize the Z axis offset on their resin printers yet? It's been a while now.

What is that model with the guy in the diving helmet with skulls on his shoulders? I love it. Where can I purchase the STL?

Open source should allow for someone to create a replacement phone app that won't rely on the seedy content that Creality use on their app.

Well.. im the same type of person but the only thing that i have to point out is the app. It is really big + for me due to the slicer in the app.. i dont have a computer available and the idea that i can just download an stl into my phone, slice it and then send it to my printer to print anywhere im well yeah.. thats the thing i need altho i do agree on the point of its being super non intuitive etc.

This just went on sale for $350 USD so now I'm wondering why 😝

Even the UI is a copy of Bambu Lab's UI

I’m not sure why I’d buy this over the Bambu. I’ll gladly pay a few hundred bucks for something that can calibrate itself and just work.

I'm kicking myself for letting a $379 Microcenter price go by without grabbing one of these.

Where did you get that Spider-Man / Venom model?

I see this printer boasts of it's G-Sensor to eliminate ringing but video after video I look for ringing and it is always there. @2:32

First k1, failed in a week. Waited 6 weeks for parts and months for the apology hop up kits. Sold it. First max, came broken, second max... Also broken.. It's not worth it of you are trying for reliability

I'm in the world as a new 3d printer , I want to "Tinker" only if I want to instead of being forced too. I believe all the leg work should be done by the company not the end user. Between working full time and family , when I have time , I don't want to have to rebuild my printer to make it make stuff. I'm amazed by those that can rebuild, reprogram and redesign their printers , but thats not me. I want to make stuff , make videos for KZfaq and spend my other time say learning 3d modeling.

Where is that Spider Man model from??

i´m waiting for a idex or toolchanger at a affordable price range thats fast and smooth like the K1, but also affordable, under 1K or around it, nope...not a bambu with AMS!

I prefer to say, "My hobby isn't 3D printing, it is modding 3D printers."

Creality low quality parts is still a issue?

what's the model at 0031 seconds

The k1 is such a good printer for people that just want to skip the fuss and get a high quality print for a cheap price. It's crazy how far we've come in the printing world lol

hello can you help me decide? I do not own printer in this moment, I'm crafter-man, mostly i would like to print for me and my kids, figures, toys, inserts for Boardgames (here i would like to have possibility print logos in color), boxes, wall organizers, utilities, enhancers etc. What Im thinking about: 1. Bambu lab A1 with AMS (499 EURO) ++++ price + multicolor - missing enclosure/ not build well for DIY enclosure 2. Bambu lab P1S (AMS later but price of AMS itself is huge in comparisons P1S combo) (600 Euro or 850 Euro with AMS +- price + enclosure, cooling, air filters + AMS with closed environment and protections from humidity - price of AMS if is not in combo purchase Price difference between P1P and P1S is to small (40 EURO), to miss inbuild cooling system and air filter already builded 3. Creality K1 MAX AI (634 EURO) ++ price + enclosure +++ volume --- no chance of multicolor (at the moment, later price of CMS? Price of upgrade for CMS? Maybe to much…) 4. Prusa MK4 kit + MMU3 kit (unfortunally price is to high for me at the moment) What I do not like on AMS (CMS as well) is amount of waste. To be honest approach of MMU3 from Prusa is much better, would like have possibility use it on bambu or creality printer... This is for me big deal breaker, and reason why I hesitate. It is not so big to say "ok go for K1 or P1S without AMS" and it is not so small, to say "Ok go for A1 or P1S with AMS" Any recommendation which one buy? And why, considering the points I mentioned? is it worth build enclosure for A1? is it worth build own enclosure for P1P? is it worth AMS or is only "hype"? Is PVA good for supports? is PVA safe for environment (no microplastic fibers getting into ground/water)? I will be glad for any suggestion. Thank you

Fellow K1 user. The app is a mess, and I'm really starting to dislike the absence of certain slicer features (like pauzing the print on a certain height/layer) and the inability to use plugins to add in these features...

It's a copy of the x1c with a c name

I’m don’t want to tweek . I just want it to work

Is this not a Bambu rip off? And if so, just get a Bambu? I've had several Creality printers over the years and I wonder how long they will support this for....

yeah, the app is brutal

Personally, no matter how good their printers are, i would not support Creality or Anycubic for the next ~5 years. Those greedy companies have lost my trust.

Thats not learning, thats copying...

I just don't appreciate all the pathos in these types of reviews. Just give me the information straight. 15 minutes could be 5 easily.

"A giant leap for Creality," hmm so before I watch let me place a guess, they a) Made their own design, or b) stopped paying for reviews etc. Hmmmm idk which would be bigger for them. Lmao cReaLiTy, juSt M0d it.

the worst printer I ever owned. I had to give the pos away to get rid of that shit box

Great printer, horrible app.

Dude if you don't care about the specs why are you making a review about that printer? To show us your big head in front of it while it prints? Who cares. I'm not buying a printer because you feel it's fine, I want to know what's this and that.