First of all, I'm Czech, and as you Americans say, "born and raised in Prague". We really hate Russia and shitty China, so don't even try this argument, like it's something similar. Learn something about history and you'll understand that we are much, much closer to Germany than Russia... Slovaks might be more to the east, but we are not... Fun fact, when Hitler started World War II, he first claimed (with the support of the allies) the Czech border areas, which were mostly inhabited by Germans. I know that you Americans don't know much about other countries, but you at least knew more than 90% of Americans, but you still have distorted ideas, and this offends me as a Czech person. We are much more of a Western country than you say... Now that we have this point settled, okay, regarding 3D printers, you definitely have a point and know a lot, but as I listen to you, it seems like a similar debate to Apple vs Android. Prusa is certainly not flawless, and I myself had my first printer, Ender 3 Pro, and now I bought a Prusa Mini. Yes, when you play with an Ender for two weeks, it prints similarly well, but that's the point - you pay more and don't have to deal with the usual issues, you don't have to dig into it, so to speak... Just like with Apple, when I take it in this analogy, you seem like a die-hard Android user who will just criticize Apple because it's expensive and, like Apple, didn't actually come first with anything, but brought it to the market in such a state that it really started to be used and worked without unnecessary tweaking... Then I find it quite funny that you first say how you're annoyed that Bambu Lab forces you to print through the cloud, that China gains information about you, but in a moment you say it's actually the same whether it's Europe or China... A bit of an oxymoron, don't you think? So you'd rather buy a printer for half (sometimes more) the price from a communist country that suppresses human rights and collects your personal information, instead of supporting maybe the only company that is not from China and is doing well in this industry? And by the way, the USA and the Czech Republic have very good relations, the American Colt is owned by the Czech arms factory, etc. Please try to think a little bit about whether you're just biased and angry at one company because I don't think that printer deserves such hate, especially when you haven't even tested it... :)

I believe when Prusa puts out a product its right. I have MK3S running nearly 24 x 7 until maintenance. They are consistent and well documented. The modifications like bear frames did not really improve the Prusa. I did get an Ender 3 Pro for my Dad and I had to modify it very much to do what the Prusa did. Guess what - I did not complain about it and hate on any manufacturer. Sure printers advance. However, how many models does Creality have - many - I love Creality but the name of the game is to sell printers. Most companies started their lines by copying features from Prusa and only recently started releasing printers with the features already applied. I.e., they living off the coat-tails of Prusa. Using Pinda probes was a large leap when Prusa appeared and for that matter the BL touch was a great leap for others to add to their systems. My point is - I like your channel, but you hate on Prusa so much its tedious so I have started watching less. You are at your best when your giving information - not putting down a specific line. I also have a Bambu Labs P1P and I like it. Its not perfect and I am not sure if it will make into my production line. It is however a great prototype. Finally, I am very glad to see the MK4 or in my case MK3.9 update. I do not mind printed parts and you should not either - it is common in the industry. Most people actually believe it printed parts for printers for many brands is revolutionary. Well, I hope you leave behind the issues with a line of printer and get back to what you were best at - I learned a lot back when..

Could only get 10:31 into your rant before my head exploded. Couple of observations and I will leave it at that on why Prusa is ahead of the curve and not behind the curve. The reason Prusa sells printers with 3D printed parts and not injection molded is the following. Prusa runs the worlds biggest print farm which serves 2 fold. 1: It tests their printers millions of hours, 2: and this this the big one. Prusa wants to sell prints farms, consumables to the print farms and service contracts. Selling print farms to manufactures is way more profitable than selling 1 printer to 1 customer. I worked for a medical device company and we were using 3d printed parts in our instruments. The cost for 1 injection molded part can be $10,000 or more. Prusa selling 3D printers with printed parts is a demonstration of their concept of how to run a print farm. Bonus fact: The other reason they print their parts instead of injection molding is they can change the design instantly with minimal cost. Extra bonus fact: You don't have to over engineer a part and make it with metal when a 3d printed plastic part will do. I proved this at my worked when I designed and printed 2 calibration tools that we were paying to have machined out of aluminum. Their cost was $300+ my cost was $0.10. and it worked better and I could make 100 per day vs waiting several months from the vendor.

I'm fine with prusa charging more for a highly reliable printer, because while someone might not be making money from it, they may just be using the printer to support another hobby, and want 3d printing as a tool rather than a hobby in and of itself. It's the same thing to me as other tools, it's fine to buy good tools for a hobby, because it can make someone happy.

Agree with a lot of your points, but E3D are making the new nozzle system (albeit it isn't the Revo) but they still have a relationship.

Are you drunk? Where does the teaser state that it's printed in a 0.6 nozzle? Standard for the MK4 (as stated on the page) is a 0.4 nozzle. toxic dude

This is a bit hard to watch. I hope someday the 3D printing comminity could come together a bit more instead of coming off as insulting the very same group that we all belong to. I agree that brand loyalty can be very toxic. I also believe that the way in which you explain that this printer is only for Prusa owners, that your video is only for anti-Prusa users. I just wish we could come together in a way that is less emotionally driven critisizm toward each other in the same community. This video just doesn't help your cause and your drive against these particular companies; the emotion just seems to further devide everyone. I suppose that is just the way it goes these days. Emotion is important, don't get me wrong. I just wish it wasn't driving this whole video. I acctually want to hear the points your bringing across in this same form just with less emotion. This comment is not meant to hurt you either, I just feel like it could provide some insight and good things to think about.

Well, I modified my MK3S and they had no problem. despite my modification they have been gaving me a great support. When I was new to 3D printer world, I had support guy spending over 3 hours to tune up my machine to perfection. I am sure you have your reasons. However there are some values that might not be visiable, but to some it is worth it. Just like why some people pay high money for Cisco switches vs inexpensive one so they will not suffer when it comes to support. I am not bias toward any brand what so ever and I do like BL X1 Carbon, but i think it is very new and they have to work out some issues, noise being an important one.

If you had even the slightest idea of Europe or eastern Europes culture or history, you would not make such insulting and stupid comments about the czechs. They neither did love their russian overlords during the time they were occupied by the soviet union, nor do they have any kind of love for the russians these days. I would say its typical US ignorance and hybris, but I know enough americans to know that there are enough people who actually are educated about the rest of the world. I do not own an Prusa, I do own a Bambu, but I have no idea where all your hate for Prusa comes from. They build very reliable products, and I personally value my time more then a few extra hundred bucks if the product just works. Your analysis about the V-groove ist just missing the most important part. Its not even close as accurate as what Prusa is using, and I would even prefer linear rails instead of what Prusa uses. We will see soon if the MK4 is good or not, but claiming it is not in some angry ranting video while you did not even have seen it yet is just entirely stupid. Open source has nothing to do with money. It just means that it is not locked down, is not protected by patents. There are many open source companies who make money, and there is nothing wrong with that. Voron also has companies who make money out of the Voron.

Love your content! But gotta disagree with part of this anti-Prusa rant: "You don't need a printer that's super-reliable"? Hard disagree. My Anycubic Vyper's thermistor died, filament runout sensor died, hotend leaked, strain gauge failed, Y-axis motor died, firmware corrupted itself, cooling fans died, and then finally the power supply died. And it took out the mainboard with it when it did, so now I'd need both a PSU and another mainboard to revive it. It sits in pieces on the healing bench right now. My Ender 3 Pro required a second Z-axis motor (sag), silicone springs, new throat tube, new PTFE tubing, replacement for the nightmare bed, direct drive kit, BLTouch, and new mainboard because my family could not sleep with it printing because it was so noisy. I've spent over a thousand dollars on two printers to get one reliable, quiet ("ish", noisy fans), slow printer. I'm not particularly price-sensitive. I work long and hard at my day job. Thus I am very sensitive about where I spend my time. And I am tired of spending my weekends fixing printers instead of designing and printing my ideas. A thousand bucks -- or more! -- on a fast, quiet, reliable printer is worth it. Edit: So I bought a Prusa i3 MK3S+ kit literally just one month before the MK4 came out. $799 well spent: I spend my hobby time designing and printing instead of fixing! No plans to upgrade to MK4. Edit2: At 33:36, you missed the menu item on the lower right for the MK3S/+ to MK4 conversion kit.

I have never watched you before (you might want to re-do this video with less bile) I have limited brand loyalty (I do have 2 Prusa in my family) I am looking to get a decent MMU and probably will venture outside of the Prusa brand for this, but good grief this felt like it was a break-up video where your girlfriend left and you just shredded her for her new boyfriend/lifestyle/hair-do.

Klipper has print area bed leveling for ages (well, at least a year)! You just have the slicer pass the print-area and the start macro adjust the bed probing accordingly.

My 2 cents - I would not use a Chinese printer when I can buy a similar product made in Europe. (hell no!) - I would not use a product that you know - they are looking into your data - when you have an alternative. (wtf?) - I would pay extra to buy a well-tested product with support and warranty - because I don't have the time to fiddle with annoying things - I like the orange they use - I don't mind they are not over innovative but they gather all the good ideas. Your video was informative because it explained why Prusa is exactly what I wanted. About the hate part you display.. internet is full of such ppl, it is what it is.

Haters gonna hate no matter what. And get views If they hate first in a badly produced video. What a shame.

Thank you for your videos!

Barnacules has never had a freaking Prusa printer LOL. You've lost it.

350k MK3's sold with less than 1% warranty claim rate, this is why I buy prusa's. My printers aren't toys, they're tools. I don't care to tinker or constantly repair on my printers like people do with their creality's and other china made printers. Also, only 33% of the MK3 is built using parts made in china. Yeah, the stepper motors are made in china, but they're made by LDO, its a known brand that makes high quality parts. better than made in china printers that use no name off brand components.

Babe you didn’t have to show your love in your video but you did. Thank you and from all of us goons know that we love you back no matter how intellectually inept you may actually be.

Why the hate? You have some good points, but your delivery….

I will say on the v wheel motion system, that where it becomes inferior is in the precision of the extrusion. Often they are twisted or bowed, combined with the thin warped beds it can give people issues with the first layer or if you need a proper flat surface for fitment of prints. I would have preferred to see linear rails on this machine to reduce noise and play, and help make the motion system a little more precise. The printed parts are there to stick with the open source theme of the printer, it's a mk4 of the i3 so they want it to continue the same principles... But my question is why does the XL have printed parts, especially the PC printed parts on it that are in contact with oils and grease and will cause issues. Good luck to Prusa, I was impressed by the speed in the video but I have an old Anet A8 here retired from my print farm that I am tempted to throw klipper on and see what speed I can get out of that for a laugh. Also the mesh levelling in the print area is a feature developed by community members in Klipper and has been happening for about a year now

You Are so Right. My next Printer is a Klipper Printer For sure.

I was on the fence between a BambuLab and a Prusa and you convinced me to go for the MK4!

The upgrade kit was bottom right on the page listing their printers.

I have a prusa mk2s and it’s still printing like a champ I never had to fix it or up grade it , it just works

You are trying so hard that you actually convinced me. I'm buying the Mk4. Thanks!

There need to be criticism where it need to be, also at Prusa.. but it sounds more like hate speech then constructive criticism..

Reduced bed mesh leveling has been available in klipper for a while now. It is third party and not supported by klipper main dev team but it does work.

We love Prusa for lots of reasons - not only are the printers great and the support amazing, but they’re in Europe and make as much as possible in-house. They open-source their designs and release slicers which support lots of other printers too. Their factory looks like a great place to work. It’s like manufacturing in the West used to be - before everyone sold out to China. Products always used to be quite expensive when made here - but the quality more than makes up for it. It’s seeing money circulate in your own economy rather than going overseas. It’s what every town needs - thriving industry, exporting great products. Not just relying on globalisation for everything. It’s the Prusa ethos and lifestyle, we love it and hope the message spreads! One day I hope to run a thriving manufacturing company making something great locally too.

i love how much you hate prusa *goes back to printing on my prusa*

I was looking for your insights on this - thanks.

For the Bambu printers is there open source or alternative firmware that can be installed such that print files don’t need to be posted to the cloud?

How can you use input shaping on a bedslinger if the mass of the bed will vary throughout the print? sometimes by hundreds of grams, even more than a Kg in some cases. Can someone explain? thanks.

1:34 Outdated or just were in need for changes only now, since the printhead and motors are more powerful and so force other changes aswell? 1:45 Dishonesty or Ignorance? What do you think that the MK3S and the MK3S+ were? They already improved constantly, which many critizised as a cashgrab with the upgrade kits. 2:20 Because all the prusas I and my friends have just work, thousands of hours, with little to no maintenance. The Enders all my friends got, constantly had issues and because a lot of tinkering was involved, resulted in inferior print a lot of times.

If a car company starts adding a turbo to a car that didn't have a turbo in previous models, are they a copycat? Or is it an update? Who cares if they didn't reinvent every screw on it, it's an updated printer. your logic seems flawed the further the video goes on. Went from a review to a weird rant.

There is a klipper macro repository that has a macro which does mesh leveling in the print area.

This video is like if someone told AI to mashup 3d printing with Fox News

LOL This guys brain has deffo been boggling! the nervous voice squeak and eye twitches are still there. I came for the hyper rant and wasn't disappointed. Im not a Prusa fan at all, but this guy's hilarious. .. The new Homeless look just tops it off haha

i think the encrypted and offline ready segements are digs on bambu

Hello! please, could you answer this about the acelerometer? (Prusa Movement dont make any sense to me) - The printer has no acelerometer - Prusa Understands that the vibration in their labs is not the vibration in a lack table or in a granite+foam base? - how the hell are we going to fine tune Input Shaping? It´s madness.........

I agree with you that Prusa sat to lng on their victory and did very little to innovate in the consumer space. And you are right to call out the zealots that support them. However, I feel you may have gotten too far over on the other side by criticising what didn't need criticism. For example, replacing printed parts with injection moulded parts is not an instant improvements; injection moulding is not necessarily superior to 3D printed parts. And a few other bits and pieces. The Bambu Labs printers are incredible (I have a P1P) and am looking forward to seeing the continued competition as Prusa and others now try to "catch up" which only makes things better for everyone!

Just a note the "Time Saving Mesh Bed Leveling" has been done recently on Voron printers. It's a custom mod that someone wrote that just probes the area you are going to print on. No idea if they got that idea from somewhere else.

Sorry, but the Input-shaping section was technically very wrong, since the bed changes mass during printing and therefore changing the eigenfrequencies. Also the point of mk3 is beeing a bed slinger, changing this would kill upgradability Even More.

specific printing area bed mesh levelling has been done before :)

I think the draft mode is probably a layer height of 0.3 and above, not the nozzle diameter. 0.1mm can be considered extra fine mode and 0.2mm layer height can be considered standard or medium mode. But your point is still valid.

17:21 Easily the most important feature. Can't support Bambu while they're in the spyware business.

I strugled to watch the entire thing but eventually did, good for you. Lets adress some FACTS (cuz you are as always full of asumpstions as always). 1) MK4 was being devopeled way before the announcement of Prusa XL so your statatement who had it first is beyond ridiculous 2) Mikolas stated that both of the benchies were printed using the same draft settings and same nozzle sizes (if you actually took a closer look you would see that 0.6 was definitely not used). but the MK4 was using an input shaper and faster speeds/ accels. 3) MK3 and other printers DO NOT limit the fan speed nor use it as marketing (wtf is that statement anyway). The MK4 on the other hand WILL do that because it has a extra termistor in the heatsink area, so you when printing at lower temperatures you will actually get lower fan noise as a benefit and are able to control the fan upon the termistor feedback. PS. new pc fan is also more powerful. As you probably (?) know you CONTROL the PC fan in the slicer. 4) bed slinger outdated and dead? Oh boy. How about upgradability, repairability, easy of use? 5) Prusa stealing E3D design and being frenemies. Also wtf is that even mean. They codeveloped the hotend and E3D will still be the supplier for those. Also you can use your V6 nozzles with an adapter 6) Cutting people out by using anti-VFA motors? Still LDO as always also codeveloped. 7) Having rigid frame/runout sensor and load cell is bad? At least you presented them this way. Good to know. Funfact, did you know that the load cell is so good that technically you can SCAN physically objects on the bed with it? 8) Dude you are comparing Czech people to Russians and their culture? So much racism in one sentence you have there, how can people praise you for this is beyond me. xenophobia maximum. 9) English not being my first language and hearing about my country as being secondary communist country is really insulting and of course I am gonna butcher english as a second language. How many languages do YOU speak? 10) Prusa is Open Source, thats the whole point and will always be. As stated in the new article. 11) Support. I have a Bambulab P1P and I am currently waiting 10 days for response for my dead bearing. Is that also superior support? 12) MMU2 is crap tbh, hopefully the promised MMU3 will fix all the issues. Especially the diagnostics. There is a cutter btw. There was a point where your videos were teaching stuff and was very informative. These rants are getting old and tiring. There are Prusas at NASA, Skoda, Haas and others, why is that?

“I haven’t seen a 3D printer catch fire in forever, I just don’t think eletrical protection is that important” - So by your theory, because YOU haven’t seen it, it doesn’t happen at all and there shouldn’t be a need to employ any means of protection… I must have missed the memo where electricity became ‘safe’ in recent times

I was looking forward to this video 🤣

Bambu updated their firmware to support LAN-only mode, so your prints stay on your local network now. Also you’ve always been able to export your gcode from Bambu Studio and put it on a microSD and plop it in your P1P (can’t speak for X1/C as I don’t own one). Also, what’s with the safety-bashing? Regulations are written in blood, and this is a product out of the EU, not America, so why the single-mom coddling of the US nonsense? Weird rant to go on, and pretty revealing about your disdain for…checks notes…single moms.

The sentiment that something built in USA is better by default is laughable.

Is the MK3S+ a better deal now with the discount? (Kit)

I am just about ready to pull the trigger on a Prusa i3MK3S+ 3D printer. The good documentation and the great community support was my compelling point. I don’t mind Chinese products, but I am worried about the possible lack of support and proper documentation. Which do you think I should go for, Prusa or Bambu? Remember this is my first 3D printer.

I don't think Chris's basement is a Prusa fanboy. His test bed printer LOG has a wooden 'z frame' and is a clone. His current video series is using old mk2.5 printers that he has around. His carnival claw series of videos had 0% prusa. Just saying. I am looking forward to your next engineering video.

“Nozzle Taps the Surface”. Ok that sounds like a good idea, but what if there is burnt plastic on the nozzle? Maybe it won’t be a repeatable solution.

my internet has been down for over a week at home and I am printing on my X1 carbon by putting the files on the sd card and plugging it into the printer with no problems

Sometimes success creates complacency, this very complacency creates competition and innovation. I’ve seen it in many different industries over the last 25 years, same story. But in this case I think Prusa will survive.

Dude... It's bit of a leap to say that they told that guy to "knock it off". You shouldn't be making baseless claims like that, it makes you sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist. Link to that guys channel please. I'd like to take a look for myself.

Revo wasn't the first easy to swap nozzle. A Czech company was first (I think they are Czech). My son loves PRUSA because their machines just work. Me, I'll go for an Ender 3 S1 Pro.

Yeah and btw, smooth is thicker... Only real point i found so far... except the... emotions... is really the draft/no draft nonsese i agree with you... but... where you get the info about the 6mm nozzle? This is standart for XL, but...

David Ashenbrener and his stinger was the first time i saw a truly nozzle bed leveling approach, i was so clever.

I have to agree with the warranty. I have an ender 3 s1 and reached out to their warranty dept. I instantly got support and spare parts.

Great breakdown! Enjoyed the video, keep up the great work!

My torture test is Recreuse Filaflex 60A. Can MK4 print it? MK3S couldn't...

33:22 MK3 to MK4 upgrade kit is literally there. You event had your mouse over it.

You are really embracing the prison look in this video

Prusa is still a great company, the most china 3d printers wouldnt exist today if prusa would have the same policy like bamboo lab. But its true the mk3 felt outdated for years, i i was really hoping to see a dualextruder on mk4 :/ iam also a little disapointed

That time-saving mesh bed leveling is a working documented featuring klipper!

Prusa has helped the 3d printing industry over the years and also helped to keep open-sorce projects open-sorce but I have to say given the current competition I am surprised they didn't come with something a bit newer form factor and kept the I3 design! I believe they are running out of time to be honest.....they do manufacture some really quality filament though!

You can print in LAN mode on the Bambulab btw, no cloud. Also you said you didn't not see the mk3 to mk4 upgrade kit, it was right there on the screen btw, not sure how you missed it. Btw I am not a Prusa fanboy at all, they are decent printers but way over priced. I have all bambulab printers myself.

1)I do get some points of him, But changin the nozzle from a standard v6 isn't that big of a deal, they also do have a nozzle adapter, so you can still use your "old" V6 nozzles. Besides Competitor Bamboolab also sells its own nozzles without the Option of other nozzles... I also would have liked the Revo System in the mk4, but then the printer would be even more expensive (they still need to compete with the chinese Bamboolab as a european company; I don't want all my stuff from china, which can easily be cut off from supply due to a new trade war... which can happen fast sadly..) China and prague Yes who cares. One country is a democracy and the other one isn't. Even yeah not made in America, but then change that and support a local printer Manufacturer there... 2) The Expansion board is kinda smart, yeah you could run all the cables as usual, but that wouldn't be easier in the long run and maintaining the printhead is much faster this way (thats what ithink at least) 3) All the Stuff prusa now implements which has been available in the Opene scene is not bad it is good, One can only innovate so much. Also Bamboolabs did use a lot of Open source stuff, it is not bad. 4) I Feel like he does get on the Rage train for every little Marketing gimmick to hard. Every Printer Manufacuterer lists all the compatible materials (which is often not that true) and again and again he hops on that rage train, instead of just hopping over it, would also be a much shorter video then. 5) People buy a Prusa to print stuff and yes you can get there with an Ender, but the Ender itself is a Hobby. I bought a Prusa (you might already guessed it right?) because I want to print and not to fiddle with the printer all the time. 6) I do understand a lot of his critism, but crtitizing a Person for being one is very low... critize the product....

did prusa use to sponsor you?

Is picking up a P1P better than building a Voron Core XY printer?

Again, I applaud your openness, honesty, and courage, to call it what it is... 🤔... I feel you've expressed my same thoughts very well. Nice job sir! 👍🏻I do wonder how many feathers get ruffled over this video...😂🤣😂

my MMU2 still not working, worst pruduct i buyed in my 3D printing story. love this video, roby from spapin

yeh i noticed how allot of 3d printer recommendation sites didn't have the Bambu listed...was really annoyed.

Well, i moved to Bambu X1 Carbon AMS, and its not perfect, needs some tuning too, but its way better than my old mk2.5s. The Bambu AMS has its problems, but thats workable to the most parts, so i agree, that MK4 does not compare to X1. If I take MK4 with Enclusure MMU the price is not lower than Bambu at all. And the rest like open source, well, i dont really care. What i indeed dont like on Bambu is Cloud usage, but they have LAN mode, which works fine. I dont need the camera anyway, because its working reliable....

Prusa as best in 2022 instead of Bambu may be because Bambu only came out in late 2022. Given the push to be "first" to release "best of year" awards or lists its hardly surprising they don't release best of 22 in 23. Prusa in 2022 might still be the best overall. Bambu must be in 2023 though. Game changer although not without its own problems. I don't think a MK4 is going to revolutionise the industry.

I do want to add that I believe i read that e3d is making the heatbreak and nozzle assembley for prusas nextruder. It was designed with e3d and prusa during the revos development. But I always enjoy your constructive criticism on all of your reviews, keep up the good work man.

How certain are you that E3D isn’t making the hot end? Or that Prusa is “cutting their vendors out”?

I don’t like the direct nozzle measurement. It causes stray bits of plastic on the nozzle to mess up the measurement. I prefer something like klicky.

I agree with some of the points you've made, but you went on tangents about unrelated subjects a number of times; somewhat detracted from the video imo, but i defo agree that prusa is over valued atm (tho i do love the PCB design, wonder what those connectors are called)

You, sir, cut like obsidian - no bullshit. I've been printing for years, but your content is gold even for seasoned hobbyist like myself - thank you! Happy I stumbled across your channel.

Love your content! 99% agree with you. Prusa has been lagging behind for years, not improving, just investing the min, and reaping rewards... From your comments, for me, I would say the Quality + safety, are super important, however, most of the new 3D printers have increased their qa. by a large margin...I hope Prusa increases investing more in their R&D and provides better products for the money. Also, their upgrade paths are pretty expensive and make no sense.

The extruder with large wheel and 2 bearings is a copy too. There's some Chinese extruder using that tech for roughly 2 years or so now lol

I love my mini and I love prusa support. the Mk4 is an autobuy for me where-as I've heard nothing but bad things from Bambu support and community. The MK4 will work and produce good prints.

Input shaping for bed slingers is hard to do... The weight of the bed is changing with the size of the print and the height already printed so probably the resonance frequency is changing too.

@design prototype test. I have been developing my fxd extruder and have posted on my groups and patreon my 3 point setup years ago . BTW it's great but they didn't co strain the path well enough from what I can see

I just did the upgrade to MK4 and must say many of these changes are nice to have and not really changing the printer much. What really improved was the 32 bit board, WiFi and LCD. The rest was good enough and got slightly improved to make this printer nearly 2x as fast as MK3S and super quiet. I use the printer when I need something reliable and quiet and combined with press connect and WiFi changed the dynamics 360* I’m really happy over all. But I also got the K1 max for larger print and must say corexy is the future while it’s a speed beast it’s also a noisy daemon from hell once it accelerates. So overall the prusa is the more polished system but I have yet to try a Bambu and see if it dethroned prusa. At this point I’m not convinced

You almost seem to have outright rage for what they're doing while giving other vendors praise for doing the same thing? It's really hard to understand your points sometimes. I did chuckle when you said that people who might like this are being emotional, given your overall video. I'd encourage you to watch your own video and try to look at it objectively. As far as why people might want one? 3d printing is something I need to support some things I do. It isn't a hobby in and of itself and I have very little free time. I have several friends who are seriously into it. When I'm printing 40+ hour prints on an out-of-the-box printer with not one minute of tinkering, it's hard to complain about them. I've finished jobs literally a week before a friend with Enders and a Voron were able to finish theirs as they had to adjust, tinker, and restart. I would 100% love someone to point me at a superior printer at the same price point, without hours on end of tinkering.

Love the video and opinion on this. I may not agree 100%, but I appreciate another view point on the Prusa eco system. Some of your key points have been a concern of mine for a while.

Bambu lab were not the first ones to come with the carbon fiber rods. I don't remember the name now, but i've seen them used in corexy configuration long time ago...

I have had two og anet a8s and I still run a anet a8 plus and I have never had any issues. But I will upgrading the a8 plus i have to a 32 bit board with 2209 drivers, igus bearings, ed3 v6 clone with a upgraded throat, heater block, thermal coupler, noctua 40mm fan, cooling duct, bltouch, going to get input shaping working in marlin just waiting on all the parts to get here.

Marlin 2.1.x has input shaping. There is a driver chip you can buy for X and Y that supports input shaping.

Very nice video! However, being from central Europe (Austria, adjacent to Czech Republic) I really need to correct you: Czech Republic is indeed former communist territory and you still see this everywhere you go, but technology-, mindset- and quality-wise I would see them on par with Germany, Austria, etc. And European mindset in terms of quality is surely lightyears away from Chinese. And - sorry to say - me and most fellow Europeans definitely don't see USA as the gold standard here either. That being said I fully share your views on Prusa. Their fans remind me of Apple fanboys who don't care for the competition but rather claim "sure they are late, but when Apple eventually implements a feature, it finally works perfectly". Those people believe the rumor that Apple is super reliable, while Windows shows Bluescreens on a daily basis. And to avoid that, they happily spend twice the money for the same technology. I have a cheap china printer and it never let me down.

I Think you also pay for the Prusa eco system of excellent support, constant upgrade options and spare parts for older models. And they produce in Europe not for dumping loans in China

I wasn't sure what channel he was talking about. I believe its MihaiDesigns

Please guys let him do his thing. We need the other side too. Take his views and opinions, get some other opinions and reviews and form your own. I think there's value on what he does.

That mihai design is from Romania and the idea of that magnetic hotend and magnetic filament sensor plus 2+1 gears to push the filament are his ideas 😉 just check his videos from more than one year 😉

If you are a capable builder, you can buy an Annex K3 kit from Alexpress for $660USD+shipping. Then you can have a printer capable of 30kmm/s2 accels, 30+ square corner velocity, 550mm/s 65c+ chamber temps(more with a bit of insulation) and a three point belted z with the ability to level the bed to 0.01mm. Not recommended for inexperienced builders, but for those with a bit of time under their belt it’s an amazing value proposition compared to a mk3/mk4/prusa mini

It's good to come across a video from someone who clearly hates the brand. It's nice to see the opinions of both sides and make a decision on what I believe is most accurate from each "extremes"