Where Creality has positioned this in the market, shouldn't have to do things like fix the extruder before 300 hours. Shouldn't have to jail break it to fix the input shaping. Being an appliance style printer, I shouldn't even have to make a full on profile just to turn out basic prints... If I wanted to do all that, I could get many many different printers for less $

$559 is the regular MSRP for this printer, if you can get it on sale closer to $400 thats one thing, but expect to be repairing the extruder somewhat frequently and wasting filament to tune your profiles. I haven't looked at every printer out there obviously so I can only point you so far. Consider checking out the QiDi Q1 Pro Join the user facebook group for it and get a more well rounded experience of it than just YT reviews. Search it up on reddit too.

@@Armored_Turtle-RK Thank you very much for your reply. You're absolutely right, the original price is close to $600 now that i checked it. Took your suggestion and saw a "Aurora tech" review of that Qidi and it is packed with features!!! Looks awesome and it is around the same price point ($450) , but on the review, it showed the K1C print quality is superior :( Reddit does mention that the K1C is mostly a hit or miss, if you get lucky, you get outstanding printer and prints, if you get unlucky, you're stuck with crappy customer support. Keep up the honest reviews, you got another sub :)

Bambu got their anniversary sale on right now, the A1 with AMS Lite is 499€ where i live, the P1S is 599€.

@@trulsdirio that is a great deal, but some people complain of warping due to lack of enclosure for fast prints. And there is a factor when choosing a printer that might sound silly, but as a strict open source software user, i really don't appreciate the closed system of Bambu, although i recognise they're superior on all aspects. The same way i wouldn't use MacOS or Windows even if loosing CPU/GPU power

The neptune max is a really large printer for the price point, I cant speak to the 4 max but I do have a 3 max and ill just leave it at this: Its used exactly the same as a junk drawer is... I have gotten some decent large prints off of it but the bed never seams to stay level enough for a good first layer and I have to adjust the z offset live every single time. For 350 sized printers there isn't much in a similar price range unfortunately. The Sovol SV08 looks promising but I cant really say as I ordered it April 18th and have yet to hear anything from them...

What strain is it under other than shipping? its a fixed harness that its attached to. Would have been easy to just cover the connection with that shell altogether.

@@Armored_Turtle-RK my guess is the supplier that made the cable did it to ensure the wires didn't snap at the connector from being bent too far.

@@Armored_Turtle-RK well theres a dude that likes to pull on the cables with regularity that can be seen in the video ;) Thats a bit of strain too.

oops lol

Because dumb idiots keep buying them. KZfaq is filled with reviewers who rave about this machine. All paid liars of course but what are you gonna do.

@@1SmokedTurkey1 Don't just watch youtube reviews, get in the machine specific facebook groups, discords, reddit etc... and see what the typical experience actually is with the machines you are interested in. Personally I just watch the reviews to gauge if I'm even genuinely interested in a machine or not.

Is there any other way than to use orca slicer? Lol I did not care for creality's slicer either, The prints in this video are a mix of both.

I absolutely could have kept harping on it for many more things, but I think that was enough to get my point across...

"No corner was left uncut" might be the right term here?

Hi there, which Qidi are you talking about? I am looking for a open source printer that costs the same or less than the K1C ($456), what would you recommend?

@@rubiskelter Wow, I didn't realize they had dropped the price of the K1C that low! I'm talking about the Q1 Pro. It was $439 every day with a coupon, but right now it's back up to $499 because of the sale. If you spend $1 more, you get $50 automatically, making the price $449 plus whatever else you get. Cheapest filament is $25 for GF ABS which would honestly be fun to print with and would print fantastic on the Q1 Pro. Brings the total to $474. You can also take $30 off with 30DAYSGIFT making it $469 alone. IMO the Q1 Pro is superior to the K1C in every way except possibly looks which are subjective. The main advantages to note though are superior extrusion quality with way less VFA, a larger build volume, and the heated chamber. The Q1 Pro can print pretty much any difficult filament like CF Nylon or picky ABS out of the box with no warping or other issues. Check out reviews as almost all of them are great.

Did you not even check the website?... It's on sale right now but it's normally 560$ and that's msrp, if it's constantly under 500$ then you should know why. It's a bad purchase even at the sale price, I would hands down pay prusa tax before buying a Creality printer. I don't know a single person that has not had significant issues with any of the K1 printers and fixing these issues costs hours of time... Unless you value your time as near nothing you made a bad purchase with this machine.

@@TrollingTardcore what I want to say is that this printer is still a good deal with only alternative is qidi q1. As far as I know. And before buying it you should know that some issues should be addressed: 1) (optional) it shood be rooted 2) x-axis issue should be fixed... That is pretty much it. After that you should be good and it will take about 1 hour to do. Nice way to save $200 on more expensive printer.

@@binariti The extruder is also a travesty and is a ticking time bomb. It will fail and is a serious endeavor to repair (the toolhead was not designed with maintenance in mind). The point of the video was - they didn't finish it - and why would they if people will keep buying beta units anyway? They could have delivered a nice machine here but opted not to...

@@Armored_Turtle-RK I'm not sure about extruder and what do you mean. What will fail for sure is heater because if you print on high temperatures thermopaste will fail for sure. But it is not very hard to reapply. There is a chance that it will not fail if you print on low temperatures though. Other than that there is not much failure points... Everything can be disassembled without much trouble. Feeder motor can sometimes overheat filament and cause clogging, though that is quite rare. Other than that there is not much to fear.

@@binariti the extruder gears are only supported from one side. They cam outwards when under load and sometimes sheer themselves from the extruder chassis. Also leads to inconsistent extrusion conditions.

I'm not so sure it's much of a review, I could have gone into a lot more detail about it but thank you!

Good thing it wasn't a review. Just a call out on companies not finishing their products. If I bought a FPV drone that oscillated badly at random because of poor flight controller tuning, would that be acceptable? Or would you suggest people spend their money else where? Would you like a 20 minute PSA about all the things wrong with this printer because I could continue, there's a lot of subject matter there for sure.

Nuh uhh.

Good thing it's not a review. Yeah, maybe you're right, maybe I should spend the several hundred dollars on this machine, then spend more money to fix the horrific hot end and extruder... as well as my time to fix or find new macros to make the darn thing as useable as it should have been out of the box. A hobby level printer is one thing, a printer trying to position itself as an appliance on the level of a Bambu machine is another.

@Armored_Turtle-RK everyone else is having success. Step back and consider why you are the outlier. In fact I just got it today and the first few prints have been rock solid.

@@skywalkr2 okay, lets see em then? why are their user groups full of people asking for help fixing things on it and less showing off of good prints like in some other communities? Sorry to tell you that the experience could be better. *shrug*

What is your problem fellow? Are you paid by Creality or something?

Apparently, you care a lot... Your whole statement reads like a child having a tantrum because somebody else doesn't like your terrible toy.

Maybe you ought to watch some of this guys other videos before you say he isnt an expert. Dude is making an open source AMS alternative, what exactly have you done again?

Can you tell me how much cope costs in your state? What Creality printer did you buy that didn't give you issues? Because out of 4 different enders I have had they have all given me more problems then the 6 bambu printers I have

And that's perfectly fine, Creality is shit, just like most china FDM printers

@@fofopads4450 They are ALL from china and you are clearly a creality hater. If there printers are such shit why have they sold 5 times as many printers as anyone ells

Yeah, Nevermind all the vorons and deltas on my channel and the complete lack of Bambu presence. Unfinished printer is unfinished. Please refer to the last 3 seconds of this video.

@@Armored_Turtle-RK Not just that, creality is begging for that comparison that is why they named this a k1c.

@@stuartwilson5827 obviously, but it doesn't even come close to a bambu.

@@Armored_Turtle-RK I’m on your side didn’t mean it another way😅 I just hope they address the z-offset issues. Neptune 4 pro has so many issues too.